Awaiting the End, by Regis Martin

By Regis Martin, Crisis Magazine, July 19, 2023

Regis Martin is Professor of Theology and Faculty Associate with the Veritas Center for Ethics in Public Life at the Franciscan University of Steubenville. He earned a licentiate and a doctorate in sacred theology from the Pontifical University of St. Thomas Aquinas in Rome. …

 “In my end is my beginning.” ~T.S. Eliot

 

If it is true that there is a God, and that He has made us for Himself alone, then no sooner do we become aware of that fact, of God wanting to welcome us into His life, than we find ourselves longing to be united with Him.

“I to my Beloved, my Beloved unto me,” is how the great mystics put it. And the attraction, we need to insist, which is greater than the gravitational pull of all the planets, is no less real for those who may not have the wit with which to say it. Or, in the case of those who are very ill, the ability to say it. That is because the desire for God is written upon the human heart, which is always and everywhere the same heart. …

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