The best eye-opening experience of history (Nicholas Senz)

  After we fall, we often have that sensation that Adam and Eve had:  our eyes are opened.  We realize what sad and pathetic excuses we’d made to ourselves, the things we blinded ourselves to.  The fog lifts and we see what we’ve really chosen, and what we’ve rejected.

  This eye-opening, fog-lifting, coming-back-to-reality experience is nothing other than contrition:  the grace of God penetrating the cloud we’ve put ourselves in like a clear voice calling us out of our sinfulness, calling us back to Him.  It is the grace of conversion, in which we turn away from the little world we’ve made for ourselves, and turn with God.

--Nick Senz, Former Director of Religious Education at OLMC,

The best eye-opening experience of history: 

How God swept in to fix the biggest delusion of all,

Aleteia, March 31, 2018

Image source:  Charles Joseph Natoire, The Rebuke of Adam and Eve (1740), https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/437180

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