* The incarnation of the Word fully reopens to creation its
transcendent destiny.
Each person is a great universe exceeding the cosmos in
grandeur.
Humanity is in the image of God because like God it is
beyond definition.
Our capacity for transcendence distances us from the world
and makes us responsible for it.
The image of God is revealed by our intelligence, by our
capacity to express meaning and by our love.
Since we are made in God’s image, there is within us an
attraction to what transcends us.
Endowed with freedom and available to grace, God can do
everything but force us to love him.
Humanity is the invisible made visible, even our flesh has
great dignity.
Photograph of the Abbey hillside by Brother Brian. Sentences on the human vocation adapted from Olivier Clément, The Roots of Christian Mysticism.