Over the next several days, we will ponder some thoughts from the writings of Cardinal Basil Hume, OSB. Prior to becoming Archbishop of Westminster, he was the abbot of Ampleforth Abbey. We hope you find these thoughts fruitful in your discernment...
Man, I am convinced, is religious by nature. The religious instinct belongs to his very nature, is part of his make-up. It is part of his make-up to be oriented to God. True, for the vast majority of persons this orientation is unknown, unrecognized. Often it is directed toward things that are less than God, but in so far as the mind is constantly groping towards the ultimate meaning of things and in so far as man’s desire craves to be satisfied by this or that good, then the unacknowledged, unrecognized, unknown search for God has begun.
From The Intentional Life: The Making of a Spiritual Vocation
by Cardinal Basil Hume, OSB
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