Yet, in order to establish such an enriching relationship to God a mere formal reference to God as the epitome and fountainhead of being (ens a se) is not by itself sufficient. Such an end requires the integral consecration of our life to that God who reveals Himself to us in Christ, whose living word addresses us from above, and to whom we cannot ascend by our own forces.

More, we must actually throw ourselves open to the radiance of the lumen Christi, without attempting to adapt it to our own nature or to falsify it by our natural categories. We must not humanize and interpret in an easy oversimplified manner that One in whom is all plenitude of divinity (in quo est omnis plenitudo divinitatis), lest we succumb to the pitfall of false simplicity. We must envision that face of Christ which the Liturgy of the Holy Church proposes to our eyes, that is, the true, undistorted, authentic face of Christ, which per eminentiam enfolds all wealth and universality of being and before which all natural measuring rods lose their validity.

If we consider all things in conspectu Dei, every genuine good finds its right place in the cosmic order and discloses its specific value more splendidly than if we attend to it in arbitrary isolation, merely for its own sake. In that light of God, all spurious goods will be inexorably laid bare, while all true goods that convey a message from God will be discerned and appreciated in their deepest, their most proper meaning.

Thus, our exclusive direction towards God should not be confused with that extrinsic and unilateral method of looking upon things which we adopt when we place some created being in the center of our perspective.

On the contrary, by being so directed towards God we shall interpret all things from a legitimately central and comprehensive point of view, which—and which alone—equips us with a key to the proper and particular meaning of every entity or aspect of creation.

We only take true account of a genuine good if we see it in the place where it properly stands in the thought of God. Nor do we fully honor or love a created good of genuine value unless we honor and love God more than that good.

Christ is the principle of true simplicity

In other words, true simplicity ensues from our bringing all things to one denominator which, far from distorting or limiting them as does an approach alien to their essence, leads to the elucidation of their innermost meaning and mystery. We can never decipher them so long as we abandon ourselves exclusively to the specific immanent logos of each of those things as such. That one denominator to which we should bring all things is Christ.