Mirror of Justice

   
   "Mirror of Justice"
   
   In the LITANY OF THE BLESSED VIRGIN, we hear and invoke Her as the Mirror of Justice, like art depicting Her as the Moon, perpetually reflecting Her Son--Her loving and adoring Him like no other, as should we.
   So, when they look upon you with death and skulls, reflect it back onto them, adoring the Queen of Confessors, the Queen of Angels, the Tower of Ivory, for every soul has a right to choose Her Son, the Living Christ.
   And to further press onward, mentioning the original title of Darwin's mere theory:  On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, or the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life.  Still, we don't know what lurked in Darwin's heart.  We can't even cure the common cold.  We can't read the mind of dogs, but possibly, they can read ours.
   The late Christopher Hitchens, sometimes writing for Vanity Fair magazine, once boldly proclaimed:  "There is only one Race--the Human Race, for there are no different species of human." 
   We simply don't know save the true mystic, and even then--there are questions.  All we can do is absorb the sublimity of beauty in all things, even ugliness.  That is our duty as human beings.