The Holy Spirit Knows What A Particular

Hence The Importance Of Patience In The New Testament, Which Becomes The Basic Constituent Of Christianity, More Central Even Than Humility: The Power To Wait, To Persevere, To Hold Out, To Endure To The End, Not To Transcend One's Own Limitations, Not To Force Issues By Playing The Hero Or The Titan, But To Practice The Virtue That Lies Beyond Heroism, The Meekness Of The Lamb Which Is Led.

No One Should Think He Can Quickly Dispose Of Questions Posed Here Offhandedly. It Was Precisely Because Writers Were In The Habit During The Time Of The Reformation Of Theologizing With A Hammer That The Split In The Church Became Irreparable. And To Work At Overcoming This Split Means Much Effort. Only The Patient Need Apply.

God Defines Himself As "i Am Who I Am", Which Also Means: My Being Is Such That I Shall Always Be Present In Every Moment Of Becoming.

But The Saints Are Never The Kind Of Killjoy Spinster Aunts Who Go In For Faultfinding And Lack All Sense Of Humor. (nor Should The Karl Barth Who So Loved And Understood Mozart Be Regarded As Such.)for Humor Is A Mysterious But Unmistakable Charism Inseparable From Catholic Faith, And Neither The "progressives" Nor The "integralists" Seem To Possess It - The Latter Even Less Than The Former.

Every Experience Of Beauty Points To [eternity].