Easter 2020
Perhaps the greatest danger to our humanity within today’s culture lies in being disconnected from our depths. Within each person is a whole cluster of capacities of the heart – for wonder, searching, listening, receptivity, and life options for compassion and love. These are spiritual dimensions in everyone and they constitute the basis for the hearing from which faith is born. But one by-product of the fragmentations and pressures of today is that this whole zone can remain underdeveloped … In the language of the Parable of the Sower, culture can become a multifaceted enemy for faith – robbing the seed, making shallow the roots, or choking the fragile plant.
-MICHAEL PAUL GALLAGHER SJ, Clashing Symbols
*As soon as holiness appears on the scene, anxiety and wrangling fall silent, even if the opposition (especially on the part of the tradition) does not. One can fight against holiness and perhaps, to all appearances, kill it. But one cannot refute it.
-Razing the Bastions: On the Church in this Age,
Hans Urs von Balthasar
Easter 2020
Perhaps the greatest danger to our humanity within today’s culture lies in being disconnected from our depths. Within each person is a whole cluster of capacities of the heart – for wonder, searching, listening, receptivity, and life options for compassion and love. These are spiritual dimensions in everyone and they constitute the basis for the hearing from which faith is born. But one by-product of the fragmentations and pressures of today is that this whole zone can remain underdeveloped … In the language of the Parable of the Sower, culture can become a multifaceted enemy for faith – robbing the seed, making shallow the roots, or choking the fragile plant.
-MICHAEL PAUL GALLAGHER SJ, Clashing Symbols
*As soon as holiness appears on the scene, anxiety and wrangling fall silent, even if the opposition (especially on the part of the tradition) does not. One can fight against holiness and perhaps, to all appearances, kill it. But one cannot refute it.
-Razing the Bastions: On the Church in this Age,
Hans Urs von Balthasar