- Bishop Terence Prendengast
- Diognetus
Salt does not exist for itself; it cannot salt itself. Just so Christians do not exist for themselves alone, but in relation to the world.
Chastity is not so much about sex as it is about reverence and respect. To be chaste is to experience in such a way as to be fully reverential and respectful. When this is done, when one is not chaste, then experience fragments and disintegrates the soul rather than builds it. Hence it is important to know that we can violate chastity as much by prematurity as by substance. Chastity is not just about what we experience, but also about when we experience it. An experience can be wrong simply because it is premature.
Thus, chastity is about waiting for the right moment for something, about living in tension and accepting incompleteness and inconsummation in life.
So much of what people call atheism is not so much the negation of God as the deification of the ego. All atheists believe in God, but the god is themselves.
Genuine sacred art draws man to adoration, to prayer and to the love of God, Creator and Saviour, the Holy One and the Sactifier.
The Catholic Church is deeply saddened by the hatred, acts of persecution and displays of anti-semitism directed against Jews by Christians.
Learn to defend your convictions without hating your adversaries and love those who think differently from yourselves.
Abstinence does not consist in refraining from material goods ... but in the complete giving up of one's own will.
Christianity cannot be thought of except in terms of relationships with other persons, brothers and sisters in whom we make real the comradely love that we preach.
Being a Christian I glory in belonging to no other school than that of truth, which is the Church ... I live by my faith.
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