When I arrive here, I always have to force myself not to count, not to measure. I have to accept that things are the way they were. Only then do I again find the path to understanding that the logic by which I judge things is different, it is always another thing, one of the pure gratuity of a presence. Perhaps this is why God has called Francesco... - http://quaerere-deum.tumblr.com/post...
If the laity received salvation sacramentally from the hierarchical Church, they received it spiritually from the monasteries: a connection with the spirituality of the Orders becomes possible and tangible in institutions like ‘Third Orders’ and later in Marian congregations and similar structures” (Balthasar, The Laity and the Life of the... - http://quaerere-deum.tumblr.com/post...
Silence is the mother of prayer, a return from the captivity of sin, unconscious success in virtue, a continuous ascension to heaven. - http://quaerere-deum.tumblr.com/post...
I paint very large pictures. I realize that historically the function of painting large pictures is painting something very grandiose and pompous. The reason I paint them, however – I think it applies to other painters I know – is precisely because I want to be very intimate and human. To paint a small picture is to place yourself outside your... - http://quaerere-deum.tumblr.com/post...
In other words, contemporary liberalism offers religious groups a choice. They can try to serve the widest possible population, in which case a liberal administration will set rules that force them to violate their conscience. Or they can serve a narrower one, in which case liberal journalists will sneer at them (and their most generous... - http://quaerere-deum.tumblr.com/post...
Under your
mercy
we take refuge
Mother of God;
may our petitions
not be abandoned
into temptation,
but from danger
deliver us,
only pure
& blessed. - http://quaerere-deum.tumblr.com/post...
I never have any difficulty believing in miracles, since I experienced the miracle of a change in my own heart.” St. Augustine - http://quaerere-deum.tumblr.com/post...
For the holy Fathers assure us likewise, that if with faith and right intention one questions even a Saracen, such a one can speak words of value to us. If, on the other hand, one asks for instruction from a Prophet, without faith and a righteous purpose, then even the Prophet will not satisfy us. - http://quaerere-deum.tumblr.com/post...
A Christian priest, Bassilius Nassar, was killed yesterday in Syria while he was giving first aid to a wounded man near Hama. - http://quaerere-deum.tumblr.com/post...
Tonight snow-haze, moonlight. The moonlight jellyfish itself
is floating before us. Our smiles
on the way home. Bewitched avenue. - http://quaerere-deum.tumblr.com/post...
It is here that each of us needs to recognize which companionship allows him to face reality, to face any darkness … only one who has already entered that darkness is not afraid of it. —Julian Carron, 12/14/11 - http://quaerere-deum.tumblr.com/post...