The Incarnation means that the Eternal God enters our common human life with all the energy of His creative love, to transform it, to exhibit to us its richness, its unguessed significance; speaking our language, and showing us His secret beauty on our own scale. Thus the spiritual life does not begin in an arrogant… Continue reading Wednesday of the Second Week in Lent: The Holiness of Things – Evelyn Underhill
In its poetic elaborations of history – and these began almost at once – Christian genius has not failed to emphasize the paradox of the Unlimited thus revealed within humblest limitations . . . A carpenter’s baby. Thirty years of obscure village life. A young man, of whose secret growth nothing is revealed to us,… Continue reading Tuesday of the Second Week in Lent: The Divine Condescension – Evelyn Underhill
Saint John of the Cross, at the end of one of his great mystical poems, exclaims suddenly, “How delicately Thou teachest love to me!” Perhaps if we realized more fully all that is implied in this utterance of one of the greatest of the contemplative saints, so wide and deep in his experience of the… Continue reading Monday of the Second Week in Lent: God and The Temporal – Evelyn Underhill
It is plain that such a religion as Christianity, which has for its object the worship of the Divine self-revealed in history, the Logos incarnate in time and space – which seeks and finds God self-given, in and through the littleness of the manger, and the shamefulness of the Cross – is closely bound… Continue reading Second Sunday in Lent: The Incarnation – Evelyn Underhill
Saturday of the First Week in Lent: God and His Saints The inner life means an ever-deepening awareness of all this: the slowly growing and concrete realization of a Life and Spirit within us immeasurably exceeding our own, and absorbing, transmuting, super naturalizing our lives by all ways and at all times. It means the… Continue reading Saturday of the First Week in Lent: God and His Saints – Evelyn Underhill
The Carpenter's Nail 