Atlas and Christ

Statue of Greek Titan Atlas by Lee Lawrie at Rockefeller Center, New York City, Author Another Believer (CC BY-SA 4.0 International)

“Opposite St. Patrick’s Cathedral in New York is a giant statue of  Atlas, bending and grunting under the weight of the world.  That is modern man!  “The world is too much with him, late and soon.”  The world is too heavy for him and man is breaking under it, trying like a silly child to carry it alone, without any help or grace or faith from God.

The other image I see is that of the God-Man on Good Friday, carrying a Cross, taking upon Himself the burden of others and proving that sacrifice for sin, selflessness and love of God and neighbor alone can remake the world.

No no will get out of this world without carrying some burden.  Atlas will never get out from under that world; the Man Who carried the Cross will get out from under it, for it leads to Resurrection and a crown in Life Eternal.  This is the choice before us:  either try to revolutionize the world and break under it or revolutionize ourselves and remake the world.”

–Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen [1]

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[1]  Our Grounds for Hope by Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen, Resurrection Press, published February 2000.

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