To paraphrase Bishop Barron, we know the language of the ancient world was Greek. It was the language of commerce, philosophy, theology, mathematics and the natural sciences. Today English is that language, the language of commerce, science and technology. Bishop Barron offers us this; the simplest translation of logos would be tongue, logic and pattern. However, no one in the ancient world would have missed the idea of logos being the word of God. No one would have missed the idea of logos being the principle of divine reason and creative order. Realizing the Bible was not written to us as the audience, it is written to us as believers. So, what have we come to believe? We believe what Bishop Barron has illustrated so thoughtfully for us, that there is an intelligibility of all things and in all things. The Greeks knew this, even if they mislabeled the source, they understood the divine nature of all things which produced the natural conditions in all things. Even in ancient times our tradition took this idea a step further as the Catholic Creed states, He created all things, the visible and the invisible. Therefore, all things have their foundation in the created goodness of love itself. Today, we have allowed ourselves to separate the definition and description from the experience. By not asking “why”, we rely on the so-called definitive answers of “what” and “how.” This obviously releases us from the infiniteness of “this and that and this also”, all the while ignoring the ancient’s understanding that having the book does not negate the author.

We also believe in the objective experience of human life. Because creative intelligibility is built into the very fabric of all that is, even in our human condition we can see this intelligibility in all things. A beautiful sunrise over an ocean of wind, sea and mist is not subject to our frames’ of references; it is beautiful in itself, it is a standalone phenomenon, recognizable to all witnesses, not resting in their interpretation; it is alive and living in the moment as we are being created in this same moment. As we shall see next, this sunrise is as beautiful as all the God given virtues. Moreover, as with all of God’s gifts, they are more than the mystery of knowing.
Just for a moment, just for an exercise of exploration, let us unite the visible and the invisible. Let’s not separate ourselves from the author, let us become imitators of Christ, doing what we were shown to do, whether we understand or not. Let us consider all that is known, all that is witnessed, all that is rationally perceived, passes through the gift of the Holy Spirit, our conscience. The modality of our tradition allows us to understand this phenomenon as passing through our soul, or as part of the natural God given law, or as an experience beyond our unique life histories. It is a unique life experience subject to His divine nature as it is made manifest in our human condition. We are His children and like children we are maturing, yet this does not prevent us from experiencing the excitement and splendor of the moment. It is our conscience which filters all that is, first and foremost. This filter reflects essence, all that is, our ethics, morality, integrity, all the untouchables which have no atomic weight, yet are as real and intelligible as all of creation. Albert Einstein was looking for the “law of unification” an equation which could unite all of the natural phenomenon at any level, in any world of physics, chemistry or biology. I suggest this equation is, God is greater than the sum of infinity, the equation is God himself. It is not a coincidence that conscience literally means, “with science.”