It Is To The Cross

Above All We Must Not Wish To Cling To Our Suffering. Suffering Surely Deepens Us And Enhances Our Person, But We Must Not Desire To Become A Deeper Self Than God Wills. To Suffer No Longer Can Be A Beautiful, Perhaps The Ultimate Sacrifice.

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.

Even If A Unity Of Faith Is Not Possible, A Unity Of Love Is.

What The Father Gives Is The Capacity To Be A Self, Freedom, And Thus Autonomy, But An Autonomy Which Can Be Understood Only As A Surrender Of Self To The Other.

A Truth That Is Merely Handed On, Without Being Thought Anew From Its Very Foundations, Has Lost Its Vital Power.