If you have no spirituality, you have no soul. Let me explain why the Second Vatican Council came to have no soul. It involves going back to the Early Church and a whistle-stop tour of the history of Catholic spirituality.
Almost everyone knows about the heresy of Arianism that tore the Church apart in the fourth century. Like me, they still wonder at how almost 90 percent of the Church denied that Christ was God and at how quickly it was defeated. In the days before mass media, all the Church could do was keep chanting the battle cry, “Christ is God. Christ is God,” until the war was won.
However, all wars are won at a price, and the price of victory against Arianism was that the divinity of Christ was so emphasized that His humanity no longer received the same emphasis that it received in the Early Church. It was by meditating on the Love of God, as embodied in Christ’s humanity, that the faithful had been led on and into contemplating Him as He is in Himself, in His Son, Risen and Glorified. The Dark Ages became ever darker for Christians once they had been denied the meditation on the humanity of Christ that leads to contemplation, although the spirituality lost to them continued in the monasteries.
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