BELIEVE IN ORDER TO UNDERSTAND

213th Meditation 

“Someone says to me: ‘I seek to understand in order to believe’. I reply: ‘Believe in order to understand’.” (St. Augustine).

Not everything is accessible to our understanding. Particularly faith is revealed to us first of all through the supernatural light of the Holy Spirit, rather than through the efforts of reason. Our intellect needs divine light in order to penetrate more deeply into the mysteries of faith. In this context, we are reminded of the words that Jesus, filled with joy in the Holy Spirit, exclaimed: “I bless you, Father, Lord of heaven and of earth, for hiding these things from the learned and the clever and revealing them to little children” (Lk 10:21). Read More