The true Christ, hides in your neighbour

[soso]

Today's Reading

There are no ordinary people.

You have never talked /to a mere mortal.

Nations, cultures, arts, civilisations—these are mortal, and their life is to ours as the life of a gnat.

But it is immortals //whom we joke with, work with, marry, snub, and exploit—immortal horrors or everlasting splendours.

This does not mean that we are to be perpetually solemn: We must play.

But our merriment must be of that kind (and it is, in fact, the merriest kind) /which exists between people //who have, from the outset, taken each other seriously—no flippancy 무례, no superiority우월, no presumption추정/간주/당연시.

* merriment; gaiety and fun.

* flippancy; lack of respect or seriousness; frivolousness.

And our charity must be a real and costly love, with deep feeling for the sins /in spite of which we love the sinner

—no mere tolerance 용인, or indulgence탐닉// which parodies [love /as flippancy parodies merriment].

* When someone parodies a particular work, thing, or person, they imitate it in an amusing or exaggerated way.

Next to the Blessed Sacrament itself, your neighbour is the holiest object /presented to your senses.

If he is your Christian neighbour, he is holy in almost the same way, for in him also Christ vere latitat

—the glorifier and the glorified, Glory Himself, is truly hidden.

* "Christ vere latitat 뷔어 라디댓; "The truth of Christ, or The true Christ, hides in your neighbour"

From The Weight of Glory
Compiled in A Year with C.S. Lewis

The Weight of Glory: And Other Addresses. Copyright © 1949, C. S. Lewis Pte. Ltd. Copyright renewed © 1976, revised 1980 C. S. Lewis Pte. Ltd. All rights reserved. Used with permission of HarperCollins Publishers. A Year With C.S. Lewis: Daily Readings from His Classic Works. Copyright © 2003 by C. S. Lewis Pte. Ltd. All rights reserved. Used with permission of HarperCollins Publishers.