If ever you have the chance to go into St. Peter s Basilica in Rome, on the right hand side you will find two chapels. In the second, a little further on, you may see nuns kneeling before an altar on which stands a piece of bread consecrated in Eucharist. It is what we see on the inside that gives power and meaning to nature and events. Our eyes see the outside.
Faith reveals the inside.
A monk called Evagrius Ponticus went to live in the desert to escape the evils of the pagan Empire. To talk of spirituality is to talk about the totality of our vision of the true nature of things. What we see on the inside changes how we treat the world on the outside. Michelangelo s vision, his faith, enabled him to see the fragile forms of Mary s grief and tenderness and love within the stone. His spirituality gave him the power to warm cold marble with the life and passion of the Pieta .