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It is quite certain that the preparation of the way [of the Lord] is a matter of concrete interventions in the visible world, and it is certain that hunger and satisfaction of hunger are concrete and visible matters; yet everything depends on this activity being a spiritual reality, precisely because ultimately it is not a question of the reform of earthly conditions, but it is a question of the coming of Christ. 137

“When all our ideas and principles relating to love are concentrated in the strictest possible manner upon the name of Jesus Christ this must, above all, not be allowed to reduce this name to a mere abstract concept. This name must always be understood in the full concrete significance of the historical reality of a living man.” p.54