Another Choice

Nevertheless a destruction of all bodies may still take place: therefore this victory is neither entire nor is it definitive.

This “human wisdom” is our collective response to the physical fact of death, to the disappearance of the persons.

Thus it is loaded with an irrepressible pathos: faced with the unavoidable separation, the irreducible destruction, we yet must endure and, if not vanquish, at least temper the sorrow and the pain sufficiently so we may also know the satisfaction to have served the need to live and the joy of existence and of love! Of these qualities and values which we place thus at the heart of our humanity, we can only be assured by an act of faith, which our increasing and consequent sharing makes all the more accessible.

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