In the wake of some shocking statistics recently released by the CDC that more Americans die by suicide than in automobile accidents, and also of two very high profile celebrity suicides, and with the knowledge that people in my immediate sphere of friends are affected by this darkness, I’ve been contemplating the nature of this evil that affects–of all the animals on this planet–only humans. This darkness clouds the mind from the truths about ourselves, the world, and life in God that are otherwise perceived in the light of reality. But I believe that The Angelus, a devotion long used in the West to mark morning, noon, and evening, can be a powerful reminder of reality and a destroyer of this particular shadow. Continue reading “Suicide and the Light of The Angelus”
