Drawing Closer:
The more we love God as he loves us, the more we resemble him; and the more we resemble him, the more we come to know him. And, to complete the circle, the more we know him, the better we love him.
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Piety is the bond which ties us close to God and, for his sake, to others too since we see Christ in them. Without it, disunity comes inevitably, and with disunity the loss of all Christian spirit.
- Saint Josemaria Escriva (1902-1975)
"In this universal assembly, in this privileged point of time and space, there converge together the past, the present, and the future. The past: for here, gathered in this spot, we have the Church of Christ with her tradition, her history, her Councils, her doctors, her saints; the present: we are taking leave of one another to go out toward the world of today with its miseries, its sufferings, its sins, but also with its prodigious accomplishments, values, and virtues; and the future is here in the urgent appeal of the peoples of the world for more justice, in their will for peace, in their conscious or unconscious thirst for a higher life, that life precisely which the Church of Christ can give and wishes to give to them"
- from Pope Paul's closing message at Vatican II.
The more we love God as he loves us, the more we resemble him; and the more we resemble him, the more we come to know him. And, to complete the circle, the more we know him, the better we love him.
++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
Piety is the bond which ties us close to God and, for his sake, to others too since we see Christ in them. Without it, disunity comes inevitably, and with disunity the loss of all Christian spirit.
- Saint Josemaria Escriva (1902-1975)
"In this universal assembly, in this privileged point of time and space, there converge together the past, the present, and the future. The past: for here, gathered in this spot, we have the Church of Christ with her tradition, her history, her Councils, her doctors, her saints; the present: we are taking leave of one another to go out toward the world of today with its miseries, its sufferings, its sins, but also with its prodigious accomplishments, values, and virtues; and the future is here in the urgent appeal of the peoples of the world for more justice, in their will for peace, in their conscious or unconscious thirst for a higher life, that life precisely which the Church of Christ can give and wishes to give to them"
- from Pope Paul's closing message at Vatican II.
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