Swirling Push
The Creed. But that cry, “Creo en Diós!” It was loud, and bright, and sudden and glad and triumphant. . . . Then, as sudden as the shout and as definite, and a thousand times more bright, there formed in my mind an awareness, an understanding, a realization of what had just taken place on the altar, at the Consecration: a realization of God made present by the words of Consecration in a way that made Him belong to me. . . . It was the light of faith deepened and reduced to an extreme and sudden obviousness. It was as if I had been suddenly illuminated by being blinded by the manifestation of God’s presence.
-Thomas Merton
“. . . the unshakable certainty, the clear and immediate knowledge that heaven was right in front of me, struck me like a thunderbolt and went through me like a flash of lightning and seemed to lift me clean up off the earth.”
-Thomas Merton, The Secular Journal of Thomas Merton (New York, NY: Farrar, Straus & Cudahy, 1959), 76–77.
Swirling Push
The Creed. But that cry, “Creo en Diós!” It was loud, and bright, and sudden and glad and triumphant. . . . Then, as sudden as the shout and as definite, and a thousand times more bright, there formed in my mind an awareness, an understanding, a realization of what had just taken place on the altar, at the Consecration: a realization of God made present by the words of Consecration in a way that made Him belong to me. . . . It was the light of faith deepened and reduced to an extreme and sudden obviousness. It was as if I had been suddenly illuminated by being blinded by the manifestation of God’s presence.
-Thomas Merton
“. . . the unshakable certainty, the clear and immediate knowledge that heaven was right in front of me, struck me like a thunderbolt and went through me like a flash of lightning and seemed to lift me clean up off the earth.”
-Thomas Merton, The Secular Journal of Thomas Merton (New York, NY: Farrar, Straus & Cudahy, 1959), 76–77.