"... the apex on which everything converges is no longer the Son on earth but the Father in heaven. Ascending to the Father, the Son draws all things with him and orients them to the Father. Moreover, the Son not only takes the boundless wealth of created things to the Father and polarizes them in this way, making them transparent; there is also the entire, infinitely greater wealth which the Son has brought from heaven and spread out before men, treasures of eternity. The contemplative who thirsts for unity, recollection and deep immersion in prayer may well be offended at this dazzling multiplicity, and his alienation may intensify as he finds it expanding into the multifarious aspects of the Church and its history, its dogmas and institutions, definitions and paragraphs. For the contemplative all this is like so much barbed wire; he finds it difficult to penetrate it and reach God. This is because nowhere except in the Catholic Church is there such absolute insistence on the formula as such and its binding nature; nowhere else is it so hard to render the mundane and finite form transparent, so that God's infinity, which the contemplative seeks in and through all things, can be perceived." Prayer, p. 53
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