We are the masks of God

C.S. Lewis ends his greatest essay, "The Weight of Glory," majestically:

"Next to the Blessed Sacrament itself, your neighbour is the holiest object presented to your senses. If he is your Christian neighbour he is holy in almost the same way, for in him also Christ vere latitat--the glorifier and the glorified, Glory Himself, is truly hidden."

The name of this blog, and its strapline, come from the great Protestant Reformer, Martin Luther, as quoted in Dr. Gene Veith's The Spirituality of the Cross. The mask of God is a reference to the imago dei, the image of God, in a way that emphasizes that this image is hidden. Yet even when hidden, the image will leave its mark. Obscure it as we may, the image of God will press upon us, and we shall, whether we realize it or not, still appear to our fellows as the masks of our Lord God.