Consider certain technological actions which may appear as trifling spiritually, but these occur to me as a rare opportunity by which ancient decays, as experienced within ancestral archetypes and original sins could be universally done away with.
Earth-wise, consider purging of black oil and the consequential opportunity for environmental sustainability. This is penance, and a potential for the theological virtue of love.
Human-wise, consider the breakthrough in genetic sciences, its discoveries and potential for wiping out ancient maladies when correctly utilised, and this calls for the theological virtue of hope.
Cosmos-wise: think of the Large Hadron Collider and its potential for discovering a feel of Genesis, and this is a potential for the theological virtue of faith.
These are human endeavours that are likely to be tainted by maladies, but its synonym in its entire pure form is in the Sacrament because, contrary to these human strivings, sacraments are a work of God.
Sacrament of penance is the divine sustainability, Eucharist is the divine genetic science and Baptism the divine Hardon Collider!
But, when the Son of man comes back again, shall He find faith on earth?
This state of peace and freedom that the human spirit strives after in science and a purely endeavour of human knowledge may still take generations to attain, and may never be attained without a full understanding and knowledge of the Christ factor; this state that has already being lived through the reign of Christ.
Everything that would survive through the aforementioned human endeavours, ultimately points to the person of Christ. One cannot achieve this lofty end simply through Economics, or Law, or Science, or Business, or Technology. One attains peace and freedom through Truth that these human endeavours seek to attain, but the source and summit of this truth is Christ, whom we can encounter through the scripture, in the poor and in the Sacraments.
It is Christ that creates a synergy that enables us to apply His corresponding graces within the theological virtues, evangelical counsels, cardinal virtues, the beatitudes , the corporal and spiritual works of mercy ; with Economy, Science, Law, Technology and Business, as pragmatic parables unto attaining the much sought after goal of peace and freedom.
