TRUTH

Dear Friends in Christ,

Because we are people of faith, we believe we have (T)ruth. This is God’s truth, eternal, immutable and saving truth. We have access to Truth. This is Truth with a capital T. This is God’s Truth, eternal immutable and saving truth.

We feeble creatures, we human beings, can only hope to aspire to little t truth. Accepting this makes us humble. And yet, this is all we have. 

Politics can only give us little t truth. But there are lots of folks running around now claiming to possess big T political truth. And that is why so many of us now, viewing the state of politics in our country are utterly miserable. You see people on social media in their comments and postings angry because their claim to big T truth is being contested.  There were societies, ancient Greece for example, who knew that big T truth existed. And that all little t truths, all human truth, needs continual purification and refinement so that it can approach in small ways ultimate truths. 

There was, for example, an obnoxious socially disruptive philosopher in Athens who lived in a giant clay pot. Instead of viewing him and treating him as a nuisance, the Athenians showed him respect and deference. Even though he was a disruptive knucklehead, the Athenians hopefully waited for the pearls of wisdom that came forth from his actions and words. 

The lesson is clear. Humility demands that all arguments, all information, all insights be evaluated with reason and purified by the same. Only then can our limited perspectives, our dull vision, and feeble plans be improved. Only by adhering to the teachings of Jesus, who is the way, the life, and the truth can we even know Big T truth, God’s Truth.

Yours in Christ, Fr. John Worster

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