With Christians, a poetical view of things is a duty. We are bid to color all things with hues of faith, to see a divine meaning in every event. — Cardinal John Newman The Sacramental Vision is acquired, according to the Catholic Church when one is capable of seeing evidence of the divine in the world around us. This runs contrary to Gnosticism and encourages us to find the Self in Creation, to seek kinship with God and the rest of His Creation. Before the 20th century and the fragmentation of the Self and the "murder" of God, prior to the development of vast urban, industrialised areas, man was in contact with nature and in synch with the seasons. Today we stare at screens and ignore the names of the flowers and plants that grow in parks and gardens. Or many of us do, anyhow. A Sacramental Vision is a distinctive Catholic idea which asks that we see the world like stanzas in a poem, as Cardinal Newman suggests in the opening q...