Universalis: Mass & Liturgy of the Hours The week ahead – from 29 to 4 April
Mar 27, 2026
They frame original sin as a tendency rather than a personal fault and liken it to a crystallising drug. They rethink atonement as mutual reconciliation and tell a school story that models this at-one-ing. They paint the Incarnation as a blank-cheque love that accepts consequences. They also walk through the key days and liturgies of Holy Week.
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Original Sin As An Inherited Tendency
- Original sin is better understood as an inherited tendency rather than a single punishable act.
- Martin Kohansky compares it to a broken mode of being that spreads across generations and is not the 'real' self.
Ritonavir Crystal Contamination Story
- Ritonavir's manufacturing failure illustrates how a single microscopic template can force molecules into a useless crystalline state.
- Factories that once produced the working drug became contaminated until new facilities had to be built to restore the original form.
Parable Linking Molecules To Human Brokenness
- The ritonavir parable maps onto original sin: a new, dominant mode of being spreads and becomes hard to reverse.
- Kohansky uses this to show original sin as an attractive but nonessential state that 'crystallises' wrong behavior.