Light On Dark Water

Saving the world does not mean making it happy; it means showing the world the meaning of its suffering and giving it a joy that ‘nothing can take away.’ …

Christ does not provide his followers with a set of wings to flee into heaven, but with a weight to drag them into the deepest corners of the earth…

Despite any apparent contradiction, we diminish and falsify our love for Christ and the Church wherever we diminish that which draws us to the world and enables us to plunge ourselves into it. This is what the love of the world means, a love that is not an identification with the world, but a gift to it.

—Servant of God Madeleine Delbrêl (from Magnificat)