SENSE & SENSITIVITY

I’ve been told that what America needs, what the World needs, what the Church needs, is a healthy dose of “reality” and “maturity”. I’ve contributed my thoughts to the subjects at http://ncrcafe.org/node/2134 and, http://ncrcafe.org/node/2145

Why REALITY and MATURITY? Because right understanding of them matters to our understanding of sense and sensitivity, our way of behaving toward each other and nature.

Informed, uninformed and misinformed sense of reality colors how we reason. The more informed our sense of reason, of purpose, of reality, the more sensibly we can relate to nature and to each other. Informed sense means right understandings of the correlations of faith and reason.

Maturity is a process of ongoing growth, of informing wisdom, age and grace, of growing into ever more fulfilled understandings of the correlations between faith and reason, of our correspondence with nature and others.

Growth in reality, in maturity, in sense and sensitivity, is what evolution is about, what civility is about, what religion is about.

Our personal ownership of faith/ hope/ love should be manifest in our personal behavior, in family, in community, in Church, in Parish. Practically, what can we do to manifest faith/ hope/ love? One way might be to facilitate group sharing in our own Parishes and growth in understanding the joined sense of reality, of maturity, of the faith/ evolution.

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“Faith supposes reason as grace supposes nature” — John Courtney Murray, SJ
www.evolution101.org