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The Christian Response Is Contained In These Two Fundamental Dogmas: That Of The Trinity And That Of The Incarnation. In The Trinitarian Dogma God Is One, Good, True, And Beautiful Because He Is Essentially Love, And Love Supposes The One, The Other, And Their Unity.

The Church Does Not Dispense The Sacrament Of Baptism In Order To Acquire For Herself An Increase In Membership But In Order To Consecrate A Human Being To God And To Communicate To That Person The Divine Gift Of Birth From God.

Hence The Importance Of Patience In The New Testament, Which Becomes The Basic Constituent Of Christianity, More Central Even Than Humility: The Power To Wait, To Persevere, To Hold Out, To Endure To The End, Not To Transcend One's Own Limitations, Not To Force Issues By Playing The Hero Or The Titan, But To Practice The Virtue That Lies Beyond Heroism, The Meekness Of The Lamb Which Is Led.

St. Paul Would Say To The Philosophers That God Created Man So That He Would Seek The Divine, Try To Attain The Divine. That Is Why All Pre-christian Philosophy Is Theological At Its Summit.

It Is, Finally, A Word Is Untimely In Three Different Senses, And Bearing It As One's Treasure Will Not Win One Anyone's Favours; One Rather Risks Finding Oneself Outside Everyone's Camp... Beauty Is The Word That Shall Be Our First.