Catholics live in an enchanted world, a world of statues and holy water, stained glass and votive candles, saints and religious medals, rosary beads and holy pictures. But these Catholic paraphernalia are mere hints of a deeper and more pervasive religious sensibility, which inclines Catholics to see the holy lurking in creation. As Catholics, we find our houses and our world haunted by a sense that the objects, events, and persons of daily life are revelations of grace.
—from Franciscan Media’s Off the Page
with host Stephen Copeland, featuring Angela Alaimo O’Donnell, PhD
2 thoughts on “Revelations of Grace”
An unfortunate choice of opening sentences, since it can be taken by itself by the protestant evangelical crowd as confirming Catholics as being beholden to ‘graven images’. Web search aggregation does take place in our sectarian world today… Mr. Copeland is a creative soul and often takes artistic license with his published prayers here at franciscanmedia.org, but this is an example of a how a little too much daylight can dazzle the senses of anti-Catholic bigotry in all its forms. Please use more care in the future.
If a Protestant read only the first sentence and not the rest of Mr. Copeland’s thoughts, then it is on them and their lack of understanding. While I don’t necessarily disagree with GW, I don’t think that Catholics should be robbed of his beautiful writing just because it might be proof to a Protestant that we worship idols.