Glamorized by Spirituality

Father Donald Haggerty

A chase after spirituality is not the same as a genuine search for God. The former is likely to be accompanied by imaginative skills and delusions about self, and obstruct a more sober recognition that God must be sought in what may seem the uneventful tedium of a sacrificing life.

Contemplative Provocations

["A chase after spirituality....is likely to be accompanied by imaginative skills and delusions about self...". Throw spirituality out the window and go for the deep, mysterious truth of God. Spirituality may give you a nice little life in which you feel pretty good, and approve of yourself. But God, The Big Thing, is far bigger and more mysterious than that.]