Peter’s Square… As one walks across St. Peter’s Square… As one walks across St. Peter’s Square in Rome, the four rows of Doric pillars which form Bernini’s Colonnade merge and shift so that they seem to increase then decrease in number and their colour changes from golden-grey to deepest black. There are, however, two small stones in the vast, cobbled square which are the focal points of the sweeping grey arcs and, when one stands upon these stones, all four rows fall into order, so that one sees only a single row of pillars. Theresa and Francis had found these stones; Francis had stood on one and said simply, “This is what it’s like when you begin to believe that God loves you.”She had asked him then how his belief in God affected him, and he had said, “I feel as if I’m being watched all the time, as if a big eye is looking at me and through me for every second of my existence. I see God in everything, but God also sees everything in me. There are eyes everywhere: the sun, moon, stars, every light and every window, but worst of all are the eyes of people.
