Education and Formation

"Thus the life of Christian devotion, whether secret or expressed, is not focussed upon the consolation, support or perfecting of the individual soul.  It is true that all this can be achieved by it.  But it looks beyond every personal satisfaction to a more sublime objective.  The transfiguration of all life, the unifying of body and soul, matter and spirit, by its redemption from egotism and total consecration to the purposes of God, is the special call and destiny of man"

Evelyn Underhill, The Mystery of Sacrifice:  A Meditation on the Liturgy, xii.