Objective and subjective piety

He who lives in the Holy Spirit lives spiritually. At the realization of Christian perfection, the differences between man and woman, simple and educated, are lost, no here it is a Jew, a Greek or a barbarian (cf. Gal 3:28). holy The Spirit revives the Church in the first place, gives strength and power sacraments, enables the unity of the faith of God’s people. It follows that the basic truths of our religion are unified, but also the main means of spiritual life. If we read the biographies of Christian saints, at first the sight amazes us with a striking resemblance in thought, action, prayer. However, it is not artificial, mechanical or theoretical unity. It is the unity of life in which it appears God’s multifaceted wisdom (Ephesians 3:10). Just as one flower is not identical in nature with another, so the Christian is different from Christian, saint from saint. They all have the same “objective piety”, the same will to do all good, they pray to one God and to all the saints. And yet each of them is only a partial reflection of Christ and each of them sees God in his light according to the degree and the mode of illumination. Thus, at the same time, piety is subjective.” From fullnessideal and from the amount of everyone chooses what best suits its internal structure and external conditions. A praying child, a praying woman, a monk, a soldier; their way is understandably different. In history the church gave rise to various kinds of devotion. There are many,some have spread around the world, others are limited to area, time, certain society.

In our attitude to these devotions, we will try to avoid double exaggeration. Lots of sculptures, litanies, novins to different saints, processions, it can all pushinto the background manifestations of basic and necessary piety. On the contrary, it is not right to suppress all personal manifestations in contact with God. In some devotions the soul of the people, the times, the needs, is living, they say directly into the heart of the individual.There are, of course, many gods. We’ll stop hereonly for some of the most famous.