On the Way

Joining fellow pilgrims on The Way post-Santiago this week
'Our Shrine of the Lady of the Snows'
Belleville, IL

"If perfection can be characterized only by 'reference to the wholeness of a human life' then the language of stages is far too abstract. Rather, what is required is the actual depiction of lives through which we can be imaginatively drawn into the journey by being given the means to understand and test our failures and successes. That such is the case, moreover, reflects the kind of journey that Christians are asked to undertake. For the telos of the Christian life is not a goal that is clearly known prior to the undertaking of the journey, but rather we learn better the nature of the end by being slowly transformed by the means necessary to pursue it. Thus, the only means to perceive rightly the end is by attending to the lives of those who have been and are on the way."

:: Stanley Hauerwas

[ Read from "Rewired" by: Paul N. Markham ]