Msgr. Charles Fink: What Does Love Look Like? 

It’s a commonplace observation that most people think more readily in pictures than in abstract concepts, and that stories move and transform us in ways that logical arguments often don’t.  God, who of course knows this, therefore has revealed Himself to us, as C.S. Lewis put it, by writing Himself into a part in our story – at once author of the whole and character in the play, so to speak – and over the centuries, bequeathing to us a series of vivid images that, as the saying goes, are worth thousands of words.

Three of these images, or pictures, are closely related, even though great swaths of time separate the production of each by the Divine Artist.  The first and most ancient is the Crucifix, depicting the death of Christ on the Cross.  How odd that it adorns our churches, our homes, even our persons, symbol as it is of such tragic human inanity and brutality and a reminder of what we’re all capable of in our worst moments.  …

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