Pondering Tidbits of Truth is my simple and inadequate way of providing nuggets
of spiritual wisdom for you to chew on from time to time.
Blessed Alvaro del Portillo
“…contemporary paganism is
characterized by the search for- material well-being at any cost; and by the
corresponding disregard or, to put it more accurately, fear, genuine terror -
of anything that could cause suffering. With this outlook, words such as God,
sin, Cross, mortification, eternal life become incomprehensible to a great
number of people, who are ignorant of their meaning and content.
You have witnessed the incredible
fact that many people began by putting God in parentheses, in some aspects of
their professional lives. But then, as God demands, loves, and asks, they end
up throwing Him out -like an intruder -from their civil laws and from the lives
of their nations. With a ridiculous and presumptuous pride they want to lift up
in his place the poor human creature, who has lost his supernatural and human
dignity, and has become reduced - it is no exaggeration, one can see it
everywhere - to a stomach, sex and money.”
(From Pastoral Letter, December 25, 1985)
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