The Holy Spirit Knows What A Particular

Without A Doubt, At The Center Of The New Testament There Stands The Cross, Which Receives Its Interpretation From The Resurrection.

The Church Does Not Dispense The Sacrament Of Baptism In Order To Acquire For Herself An Increase In Membership But In Order To Consecrate A Human Being To God And To Communicate To That Person The Divine Gift Of Birth From God.

We No Longer Dare To Believe In Beauty And We Make Of It A Mere Appearance In Order The More Easily To Dispose Of It. Our Situation Today Shows That Beauty Demands For Itself At Least As Much Courage And Decision As Do Truth And Goodness, And She Will Not Allow Herself To Be Separated And Banned From Her Two Sisters Without Taking Them Along With Herself In An Act Of Mysterious Vengeance. We Can Be Sure That Whoever Sneers At Her Name As If She Were The Ornament Of A Bourgeois Past -- Whether He Admits It Or Not -- Can No Longer Pray And Soon Will No Longer Be Able To Love.

To Be A Child Means To Owe One's Existence To Another, And Even In Our Adult Life We Never Quite Reach The Point Where We No Longer Have To Give Thanks For Being The Person We Are.

When You Say Yes To God Unconditionally, You Have No Idea How Far This Yes Is Going To Take You. Certainly Farther Than You Can Guess And Calculate Beforehand... But Just How Far And In What Form? At The Same Time, This Yes Is The Sole, Non-negotiable Prerequisite Of All Christian Understanding, Of All Theology And Ecclesial Wisdom.