“We have to withdraw from time to time
to be silent and still, to gain perspective,
to look beyond this world to search for
the origin and purpose of it all. Is there
one with power to heal? Is there a
teacher who will speak to me of truths
my mind cannot discover? Where is the
guide to show me the way through life’s
problems and difficulties? The Christian
knows there is such a one. It is he who
spoke of himself as the Way, the Truth,
and the Life ... It is in silence that we
shall hear a voice deep within us speaking
to our nobler selves, calling us to high
ideals and generous instincts.”
[Cardinal Basil Hume OSB
The Mystery of Love]
“Whoever receives this child in my name receives me,
and whoever receives me receives the one who sent me.
For the one who is least among all of you
is the one who is the greatest.”
[Luke 9. 48]
“We have to do the works of the one
who sent me while it is day.
Night is coming when no one can work.
While I am in the world,
I am the light of the world.”
[Luke 9. 48]
“Behold, I tell you a mystery. We shall not fall asleep, but we will all be changed,
in an instant, in the blink of an eye,
at the last trumpet.
For the trumpet will sound, the dead will be raised incorruptible,
and we shall be changed.”
[1 Corinthians 15.51-52]