Archbishop Luis M. Martinez
"We
appreciate the flavor of some fruit much more when we taste it than when we
read a description of it in a botany book. What description comes near the
actual taste we get when we bite into fruit? So too, when we are united to God
and savor Him by personal experience we know divine things better than when we
read things written by learned men."
(From True Devotion to the Holy
Spirit)
Pope Francis
"I prefer a
church which is bruised, hurting and dirty because it has been out on the
streets, rather than a church which is unhealthy from being confined and from
clinging to its own security."
(Apostolic Exhortation -
November 24, 2013)
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Cardinal Karol Wojtyla - (St. Pope John Paul II)
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“We are now standing in the face of the greatest
historical confrontation humanity has gone through. I do not think that wide
circles of American society or wide circles of the Christian community
realize this fully. We are now facing the final confrontation between the
Church and the anti-Church, of the Gospel versus the anti-Gospel.
“We must be prepared to undergo great trials in
the not-too-distant future; trials that will require us to be ready to give
up even our lives, and a total gift of self to Christ and for Christ. Through
your prayers and mine, it is possible to alleviate this tribulation, but it
is no longer possible to avert it. . . .How many times has the renewal of the
Church been brought about in blood! It will not be different this time.”
(From Bicentennial
talk given in the United
States as quoted by Father C. John
McCloskey in The Final Confrontation)
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I immediately think of the Middle East here, but it will not be long in coming to our country. Are we Christians ready?
ReplyDeleteGreat question Barb. I suspect not many even know they should be ready. God strengthen and sustain us.you May we not be found lacking. God bless.
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