Fr. Rolheiser writes that the Roman Catholic devotional tradition is one of the great complements to theology. This tradition doesn’t trade on critical thinking but on the romantic imagination. It aspires to inflame the heart. Admittedly, this is risky. Feelings can lead us in many directions, but faith without feeling is perhaps the greater danger. The heart also needs its due. Wendy Wright, a theologian at Creighton University in Nebraska, has written a remarkable book entitled: Sacred Heart – Gateway to God. The book chronicles how she was led to faith and how she now sustains herself there: “A layered reality is part of the Catholic imagination. To possess this imagination is to dwell in a universe inhabited by unseen presences – the presence of God, the presence of saints, and the presence of one another. There are no isolated individuals but rather unique beings whose deepest life is discovered in and through one another. This life transcends the confines of space and time…We – and Jesus and the saints – exist in some essential way outside of the chronology of historical time. We have being beyond the strictures of geographical space. And we can sense this now, in the concreteness of our lives.” The Catholic devotional tradition has long helped make us aware of our many-layered universe. We need to continue to employ its imagination if we are to help our fleshy hearts feel what lies inside God’s eternal heart.