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I grew up Muslim in a Catholic community – and Mary represented common ground theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

“I really only love God as much as I love the person I love the least.” -Dorothy Day, who was born #OTD in 1897. Icon: @KLICONS

“…the same can be applied to marriage - another audacious feat of the imagination - which, for some of us, like art, like faith, draws into focus what it is to love. It is order itself that allows us to be free.” (@nickcave) theredhandfiles.com/what-does-it-t…

“…it is only really in church […] that I become truly spiritually liberated. I am swept up in a poetic story that is both true and imaginative and fully participatory, where my spiritual imagination can be both contained and free.”

“Aquinas explores the idea that maybe the word ‘God’ is more a verb than a noun. Utter activity. So any static, frozen doctrine of the trinity is necessarily a betrayal!”

via “A spirituality for the 21st century: beyond the ghetto and assimilation” youtube.com/watch?v=gypug6…

“The doctrine of the Trinity is the most exciting thing we have to offer our contemporaries. We can only communicate our faith in the doctrine through conversation. [B]ecause the Trinity is eternal, equal, loving conversation of the Father and the Son, which is the Holy Spirit”

“Ci sono luoghi in cui soffia lo Spirito, ma c’è uno Spirito che soffia in tutti luoghi.” (Madeleine Delbrêl, via @Pontifex concluding @Synod_va)

Dilexit nos: the infinite in the finite ayebeleef.design.blog/2024/10/25/dil…

“Il nulla assoluto non esiste; esso è un ‘riflesso condizionato’ del nostro pensiero, e niente di più. Se noi professiamo che il mondo è stato creato dal nulla, ciò positivamente può significare soltanto che Dio ha creato il mondo da Se stesso.” (S. Bulgakov)

#Sinodo @Synod_va Silenzio e preghiera per ascoltare le domande complesse La meditazione di padre Timothy Radcliffe di Lorena Leonardi osservatoreromano.va/it/news/2024-1…

Delighted to announce that Fr Timothy Radcliffe OP, the great English Dominican preacher and the Gandalf of the Synod, will be made a cardinal on 8 December.

"Per andare al cuore della Torah è necessario l’atteggiamento del bambino: vulnerabile, pronto ad accogliere il dono, nudo nel suo bisogno, capace di stupore."

"Gesù interviene, indignandosi contro i discepoli e dicendo loro di non essere di impedimento a chi vuole andare a lui. Un rischio grande nella comunità cristiana di tutti i tempi: essere di impedimento, anziché facilitare l’accesso." monasterodibose.it/preghiera/vang…

"So Peter’s net is filled with space and held together by truth, delight and joy. It is hauled to the beach not by juridical power, but by the attractiveness of the Lord who, when he is lifted up, draws all to himself. Beauty hauls the net to the shore."

“When cultures meet, there should remain a space between them [:…] Zwischenraum, the room between. This is the fertile space between cultures when each retains its identity but is open to the other. Aquinas said that when there is love, the two become one, but remain distinct.”

"God is always there first, before we notice. In the Prologue of the Rule of St Benedict God says, ‘My eyes are upon you and My ears open to your prayers. And before you call, I will say, ‘Behold, I am here.’ ”God is waiting, even before we pray." vaticannews.va/en/vatican-cit…

‘There are only two kinds of people, those who accept dogmas and know it, and those who accept dogmas and don’t know it… Trees have no dogmas. Turnips are singularly broadminded.’ (G. K. Chesterton)

‘We are already one. But we imagine that we are not. And what we have to recover is our original unity. What we have to be is what we are.’ (Thomas Merton)

“When I shall ascend to heaven, which I certainly intend to do, the Big judge will say to me “Where are your wounds?” And if I say I haven’t any, he will say “Was there nothing to fight for?” (via Timothy Radcliffe, OP) vaticannews.va/en/church/news…