The Faith
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If we want to keep company with God, we must be prepared to let him remind us of his ways, not at the times that suit us, but at the times that suit him. If, through our use of the Bible, through our reading and meditation, we let him into our hearts, below the level…
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His Incarnation now, in us, is in the suffering world as it is. It is not reserved for a utopia that will never be; it does not differ from his first coming in Bethlehem, his birth in squalor, in dire poverty, in a strange city. It is the same birth here and now. There is…
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I went into Lent as usual, like a dog running on a hardwood floor and trying to make a sudden turn–feet slipping wildly, head making the turn while the rest of the body swings out, trying to continue in the original direction. I have managed to sustain a couple of disciplines, so it hasn't been…
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What is asked of us is that we wrestle in faith with God and with whatever opposes us in the world. It is not the faith of cheerful fables that is demanded of us in these times, but rather a hard faith–for the softening and accomodating enchantment is falling away from all things, and everywhere…
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…desire truth and goodness, for desire fits one to receive what one desires… There is God, the Supreme Spirit. We can know almost nothing about Him; we can know that He exists by reason; so far as He can be revealed to our finite minds at all, He is revealed by Christ. We can't receive…
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Not to accept everything, but to understand everything; not to approve of everything, but to forgive everything; not to adopt everything, but to search for the grain of truth that is contained in everything. To reject no idea and no good intention, however awkward or feeble. –Elisabeth Leseur (via Magnificat)
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Christian morality is not a titanic effort of the will, the effort of someone who decides to be consistent and succeeds, a solitary challenge in the face of the world. No. Christian morality is simply a response. It is the heartfelt response to a surprising, unforeseeable, "unjust" mercy…. The surprising, unforeseeable, "unjust" mercy…of one who…
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She is the garden enclosed and the solitary place, the nave all quiet and the lamp of recollection, the triumphal apse and the translucent altar. She is the living tabernacle and the eternal altar of repose. –Fr. Maurice Zundel
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Janet has asked me to post this request: Please pray for my daughter-in-law Meghan who fell from a rather high porch onto her head. She seems to be all right, except that she has two cracked vertebrae, and will need surgery tomorrow. Please pray for her health and also that this might help to draw…
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Only one thing ever makes you safe–putting your trust in God. –Caryll Houselander
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