In his Sermon to Catechumens, St Augustine solemnly pronounces that, in heaven, “it is all right-hand, because no misery is there” (De Symbolo, 11). But while a heaven devoid of left-handedness may be bad news for Ned Flanders - owner of the Leftorium and TV’s most famous Christian – it is mindblowingly good news for humanity.
Here’s why.
Yesterday a holy and learned friend asked me a question, put to her by someone in her RCIA class: Why, if the Son is co-equal with the Father – i.e., if he is as fully God as the Father is – does the Creed have him sitting at the Father’s right hand? This seems to imply that the Son is subordinate to the Father – in the way, for example, that a “right-hand man” does the bidding of the boss he sits next to.
