The weightlessness of faith

The ease of unbelief and the difficulty of belief lie on different planes. Unbelief, too, is a heavy burden, and in my opinion even more so than faith. Faith also makes man light. This can be seen in the Church Fathers, especially in monastic theology. To believe means that we become like angels, they say. We can fly, because we no longer weigh so heavy in our own estimation. To become a believer means to become light, to escape our own gravity, which drags us down, and thus to enter the weightlessness of faith.

From Salt of the Earth, by Joseph Ratzinger.

From the same source, here is a good meditation for Holy Week:

The theology of littleness is a basic category of Christianity. After all, the tenor of our faith is that God's distinctive greatness is revealed precisely in powerlessness. That in the long run, the strength of history is precisely in those who love, which is to say, in a strength that, properly speaking, cannot be measured according to categories of power. So in order to show Who He is, God consciously revealed himself in the powerlessness of Nazareth and Golgotha ... the least power of love is already greater than the greatest power of destruction.

I won't be blogging again until after Easter, so I want to wish everyone a prayerful, grace-filled Triduum.