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Someday, after mastering the winds, the waves, the tides and gravity, we shall harness for God the energies of love, and then, for a second time in the history of the world, [humanity] will have discovered fire.
Pierre Teilhard De Chardin
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“We must beware of any attempt to brandish Christianity void of the message and presence of the Wounded and Risen One. Any presentation of Christianity that abstracts the scandal of the Cross or perversely uses the Cross as a weapon with which to strike others is veering towards heresy or even blasphemy.
“So we must remain resolutely Christocentric and resolutely committed to following Christ and to apply his commandments, as well as his promises — first of all to ourselves. And beware of too much rhetoric, beware of too many words and consider how people live.
“Ultimately, that is how Christianity spread and that is how Christianity renewed a weary world in late antiquity. By all means, there was an element of preaching and teaching and catechesis. But what bowled people over and turned societies round was seeing a new way of being human, and a new way of creating and fostering community, seeing and recognizing the possibility of reconciliation, of forgiveness, and of building a society, a new city, on the basis of reconciliation and forgiveness.
“And so when Christianity is invoked as a component of what is ultimately hate speech, we’ve just got to not jump on the train.” - Bishop Erik Varden
“In this loaf of bread you are given clearly to understand how much you should love unity. I mean, was that loaf made from one grain? Weren't there many grains of wheat? But before they came into the loaf they were all separate; they were joined together by means of water after a certain amount of pounding and crushing.
Unless wheat is ground, after all, and moistened with water, it can't possibly get into this shape which is called bread. In the same way you too were being ground and pounded, as it were, by the humiliation of fasting and the sacrament of exorcism.
Then came baptism, and you were, in a manner of speaking, moistened with water in order to be shaped into bread. But it's not yet bread without fire to bake it. So what does fire represent? That's the chrism, the anointing. Oil, the fire-feeder, you see, is the sacrament of the Holy Spirit.” - St Augustine of Hippo, Sermon 227
“The disciples only see, they only behold. A far greater intimacy is granted to Thomas, a more corporeal intimacy than the head of the beloved disciple resting on Jesus's breast. It is again a suggestively mythologized intimacy - thrusting into the side of the second Adam from which the new Eve issues. Caravaggio captures the eroticism of that action, its carnality, its penetration.” - Graham G. Ward
The body isn’t a prison cell from which the soul escapes. It’s the site of redemption.
This has political implications that we’ve barely begun to think through. The body is always somewhere. Bodies are particular, located, embedded in a specific place and a specific web of obligations. When Christianity announces that the body matters—that God took one on, kept it, and raised it—it’s declaring that the local, the specific, and the incarnate aren’t obstacles to the spiritual life. They are its ordinary form. The parish, the neighborhood, the local economy, the particular watershed—these aren’t sentimental attachments to be outgrown. They’re the geography of love.” - Mark Clavier
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“She did not mistake in taking him for a gardener; though she might seem to err in some sense, yet in some other she was in the right. For in a sense, and a good sense, Christ may well be said to be a gardener, and indeed is one. For our rule is, Christ as He appears, so He is ever; no false semblant in Him…[Christ] gardens our souls too, and makes them, as the prophet saith, like a well-watered garden; weeds out of them whatsoever is noisome or unsavoury, sows and plants them with true roots and seeds of righteousness, waters them with the dew of his grace, and makes them bring forth fruit to eternal life.” - Lancelot Andrewes, Easter 1620 Sermon, Whitehall
“We are not some casual and meaningless product of evolution; each of us is the result of a thought of God, each of us of us is willed, each of us is loved, each of us is necessary.” - Pope Benedict XVI
“At this moment, both sad and joyful, providentially bathed in the light of Easter, I would like all of us to see the passing of our beloved Holy Father Pope Francis and the Conclave as a paschal event, a stage in that long exodus through which the Lord continues to guide us towards the fullness of life. In this perspective, we entrust to the ‘merciful Father and God of all consolation’ (2 Cor 1:3) the soul of the late Pontiff and also the future of the Church.” - Pope Leo XIV’s First Address to the College of Cardinals on May 10, 2025
“The Church becomes, in this view, the people who receive the Word/Christ, a people of faith, a dawn-people. Luther also calls this people ’the Gospel’s new creation’ whom the present Christ now mysteriously gathers and forms and which he will give to the Father at the end of time.” - Bishop Carl Axel Aurelius
“The risk of prayer is to allow what already is to come to perceptible birth in us without any attempt on our part to conform this process to our expectation or our supposed need…What already is in us is Christ and that Christ in us is eternally moving towards the Father who is eternal Source…Our natural place as human beings is in this movement of love. But for our own journey to arrive at this destination in union with the movement of the Son to the Father, we must be detached from our adherence to the securities of the world in which the ego has to be defended against any loss of status because its solidity and worth depend on its place in an overall system of values that can…be bargained over.”
- Rowan Williams at the Pontifical Faculty of St Teresa of the Child Jesus in Rome on “St Teresa and the Risk of the Contemplative Life” https://youtu.be/zYkE9til0Vo?si=Uj7YbHEEZy5wa694
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“At Mattins bound, At Prime reviled, Condemned to death at Terce, Nailed to the Cross at Sext, At None his blessed side they pierce, They take him down at Evensong, In grave at Compline lay; Who henceforth bids his Church observe These sevenfold hours alway.”
- From a medieval book of hours
“When we were still far off you met us in your Son and brought us home. Dying and living you declared your love and opened the gate of glory.”
Let us give thanks to the beneficent and merciful God, the Father of our Lord, God and Savior, Jesus Christ, for he has covered us, helped us, guarded us, accepted us to him, had compassion on us, supported us, and has brought us to this hour. Let us also ask him , the Lord our God, the Pantocrator, to guard us in all peace this holy day and all the days of our life.
O Master, Lord, God the Pantocrator, the Father of our Lord, God, and Savior, Jesus Christ, we thank you for every condition, concerning every condition, and in every condition. For you have covered us, helped us, guarded us, accepted us to you, had compassion on us, supported us, and brought us to this hour.
Therefore, we ask and entreat your goodness, O Lover of Humanity. Grant us to complete this holy day, and all the days of our life, in all peace in your fear. All envy, all temptation, all the work of Satan, the counsel of wicked people and the rising up of enemies, hidden and manifest, take them away from us and from all your people and from this holy place that is yours. But those things which are good and profitable do provide for us. For it is you who have given us the authority to trample on serpents and scorpions, and upon all the power of the enemy.
And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from the evil one, by the grace, compassion and love-of-humanity, of your only-begotten Son, our Lord, God and Savior, Jesus Christ. Through whom the glory, the honor, the dominion, and the adoration are due unto you, with him, and the Holy Spirit, the Life-Giver, who is of one essence with you, now and at all times, and unto the age of all ages. Amen.
- The Thanksgiving Prayer in The Agpeya
I need you in order to be myself: That is what the doctrine of the Trinity signifies.
- Bishop Kallistos Ware of Diokleia
“That newness of prayer is expressed most vividly by St. Paul in Romans 8 and Galatians 4. ‘God has sent the Spirit of his Son into our hearts, crying, ‘Abba! Father!’’ (Gal. 4:6). The new way we talk to God is as Father, and that is the work of the Spirit of Jesus. And of course it is the prayer recorded of Jesus himself, the night before his death (Mark 14:36). So, for the Christian, to pray—before all else—is to let Jesus’ prayer happen in you. And the prayer that Jesus himself taught his disciples expresses this very clearly: ‘Our Father.’ We begin by expressing the confidence that we stand where Jesus stands and can say what Jesus says.
“Some kinds of instruction in prayer used to say at the beginning, ‘Put yourself in the presence of God.’ But I often wonder whether it would be more helpful to say, ‘Put yourself in the place of Jesus.’ It sounds appallingly ambitious, even presumptuous, but that is actually what the New Testament suggests we do. Jesus speaks to God for us, but we speak to God in him. You may say what you want—but he is speaking to the Father, gazing into the depths of the Father’s love. And as you understand Jesus better, as you grow up a little in your faith, then what you want to say gradually shifts a bit more into alignment with what he is always saying to the Father, in his eternal love for the eternal love out of which his own life streams forth.
“That, in a nutshell, is prayer—letting Jesus pray in you and beginning that lengthy and often very tough process by which our selfish thoughts and ideals and hopes are gradually aligned with his eternal action, just as, in his own earthly life, his human fears and hopes and desires and emotions are put into the context of his love for the Father, woven into his eternal relation with the Father—even in that moment of supreme pain and mental agony that he endures the night before his death.”
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“When I pray, I ask God to bring me into that mystery of love, to bring me into that pouring out and pouring back of love between the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit. I ask to be dropped into that ocean and carried along with its energy, its life.”
- The Most Rev. Rowan Williams, 104th Archbishop of Canterbury
[So what kind of God is God?]
“God is Holy Trinity. God, mysteriously, is not just a bloke sitting up in heaven. God is much more like a great chord with three notes, or lots of different instruments playing one great, complicated, interweaving sound. God is relationship. God is giving and receiving. God is like the sea going out and the sea coming back, a love pouring out and the love pouring back and pouring out again - the Father, the Son, the Holy Spirit. God is like that.”
- The Most Rev. Rowan Williams, 104th Archbishop of Canterbury