Soul Proclamations Quotes

“With John, we are called to prepare the way for Jesus and to point others to him. But we cannot do this unless we also leap for joy at the very thought of him. We don't need to be advanced in our discipleship or all that steady in our faith to experience this joy, since the happiness Jesus brings is the fulfillment for which we are hard-wired. Imagine infinite kindliness, and yield to it. The very thought of it inaugurates our journey into light.”
― Ray Suarez, Soul Proclamations: Singing the Magnificat with Mary

“As we prepare ourselves to celebrate Christ's birth, we might do well to ask how he is our Lord, that is, the purpose of our life. To call him Lord is to claim him as our ruler and to take our direction from him. But following Jesus is about more than obedience. If he is our purpose, he is our center of gravity, the radiant love whose beauty draws us to itself as the fulfillment of our longing and the perfection of our nature.”
― Ray Suarez, Soul Proclamations: Singing the Magnificat with Mary

“What is the prophetic spirit, both new and old, being raised up in the institutional church? How can old and new combine today to make Christ known?”
― Ray Suarez, Soul Proclamations: Singing the Magnificat with Mary

“Elizabeth is a good model for those of us who have inherited a church that's rich in wisdom but feeling spent. Can we who are older greet emergent experimenters with attentiveness and zeal? This is not a matter of ceding spiritual ground to the young, but of joining our vitality to theirs. Elizabeth was just as pregnant as Mary with something new.”
― Ray Suarez, Soul Proclamations: Singing the Magnificat with Mary

“The issue is not possession of riches, according to Saint Augustine, but the desire for them.”
― Ray Suarez, Soul Proclamations: Singing the Magnificat with Mary

“Jesus often reminds his followers and friends to discern the difference between what matters and what doesn't; he urges a stripped-down, unencumbered life. And here, he recommends this type of life as a way of staying ready, being wide awake and prepared for what God brings next.”
― Ray Suarez, Soul Proclamations: Singing the Magnificat with Mary