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Every winter, you can hear mothers all around the world telling their children to bundle up warm before they go outside.
Of course, that’s really good advice to give kids. But if you were to put six coats, four pairs of gloves, and three hats on a corpse, it wouldn’t make a bit of difference.
The purpose of the extra clothing is to help preserve the body’s own heat—heat that is generated by a pumping heart, breathing lungs, and coursing blood. Unless a person is alive, outer clothing doesn’t matter.
Imagery like this can help us understand how the Holy Spirit works on our inner lives, while we make decisions about how we will live in the outer world. It is the Spirit’s role to form us interiorly so that we give the world an attractive and life-giving witness of love, joy, and compassion.
A Wardrobe from Heaven. St. Paul touches on this interior-exterior theme when he tells us, “All you…
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