Kindle Notes & Highlights
“Participation” in the Mass does not mean hearing our own voices. It means God hearing our voices.’
Faith is not a mood.’
Christopher Dawson had written: ‘The existence of a common liturgical language of some kind is a sign of the Church’s mission to reverse the curse of Babel and to create a bond of unity between the peoples.’
‘Of all the different purposes set before mankind, the most disastrous is surely “the Pursuit of Happiness”.’
‘Mother Teresa is, in herself, a living conversion; it is impossible to be with her, to listen to her, to observe what she is doing and how she is doing it, without being in some degree converted.’
‘Today what is happening on the surface of the Church will pass. For Christ, the Church is the same, today, yesterday and tomorrow.’
Jesus: The Man Who Lives
When you get to the end of your life . . . you look back . . . on the most disgusting things that you’ve done, all sorts of really desperate things, and you think to yourself if only I could manage not to have done that. Then you think that, wait a minute, supposing I pulled out all those things, that would not be the life that I’ve lived . . . to complete the drama . . . involves everything that happens to you . . . it’s how you do that and what you can feel about it afterwards and how you fit it in to the totality of your experience, the sense of the whole drama.67
Once again, for the thousandth time, Colm watched the ancient endless beautiful ceremony, the exchange of gifts between earth and heaven, dust and spirit, man and God.
