‘Two priests and a brother … were sent to the United States … in order to assist American Catholics in their struggle against relativism, secularism, and consumerism. In other words, they were sent to the US to help Americans be holy.’
Chills. Miles Christi.
On Holy Saturday, God incarnate entered “the absolute and extreme solitude of mankind.” Here Benedict pointed out that we have all experienced that terrifying feeling of abandonment, which is why we fear death—similarly to how, “as children, we are afraid of being alone in the dark, and the only thing that can comfort us is the presence of a person who loves us.” And that is precisely what happened on Holy Saturday, he said. Even in the darkest of times, “we can hear a voice that calls us and find a hand that takes ours and leads us out.” If love can penetrate to the very depths of hell, we are never alone or hopeless.
Read more here, at First Things. Christus surrexit!
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