All of life is a sacred adventure in the coming of the Reign of God, a journey to fullness of life rather than its denunciation. Yet many still follow the privatization of the spiritual life that blossomed in the nineteenth century. They still cling to the notion that the purpose of the spiritual life is to enable people to flee the sullying secularism of the world for the sake of personal sanctification. It is a spirituality that “practices” religion but does not identify with the Gospel messages that embody it.
