Hidden

Simone Weil, Awaiting God, trans. Brad Jersak with Adit Gamble and Anny Ruch, Fresh Wind Press. Kindle Edition. p.193

“The true philosopher’s stone, the true Grail, is the Eucharist. Christ indicates to us what we must think of miracles by placing an invisible and, in some way, purely conventional miracle at the very center of the Church (only the convention is ratified by God).

God wants to remain hidden: ‘Your Father who is in secret.’

Hitler could die and rise again fifty times and I would not regard him as the Son of God. And if the Gospels were to omit all mention of the resurrection of Christ, faith for me would be easier. The Cross alone is sufficient for me.

The proof for me—the truly miraculous thing—is the perfect beauty of the Passion narratives, together with some of the brilliant words of Isaiah: ‘Injured, maltreated, he never opened his mouth.’ And of St. Paul, ‘He did not regard equality with God as a thing to be grasped (lit. looted). … He emptied (lit. voided) himself. … He made himself obedient even as far as death, and death on the Cross.’ This is what compels me to believe.

Indifference with regard to miracles would not trouble me, if not for the anathemas launched by the councils, since the Cross produces for me the same effects that the resurrection does for others.” - Simon Weil