We No Longer Dare To Believe In

The Passion Narratives Are The First Pieces Of The Gospels That Were Composed As A Unity.

The Church Does Not Dispense The Sacrament Of Baptism In Order To Acquire For Herself An Increase In Membership But In Order To Consecrate A Human Being To God And To Communicate To That Person The Divine Gift Of Birth From God.

Consequently, Christian Meditation Is Entirely Trinitarian And At The Same Time Entirely Human. In Order To Find God, No One Need Reject Being Human Personally Or Socially, But In Order To Find God All Must See The World And Themselves In The Holy Spirit As They Are In God's Sight.

Faith Means The Fundamental Response To The Love That Has Offered Itself Up For Me. It Thus Becomes Clear That Faith Is Ordered Primarily To The Inconceivability Of God's Love, Which Surpasses Us And Anticipates Us. Love Alone Is Credible; Nothing Else Can Be Believed, And Nothing Else Ought To Be Believed. This Is The Achievement, The 'work' Of Faith: To Recognize This Absolute Prius, Which Nothing Else Can Surpass; To Believe That There Is Such A Thing As Love, Absolute Love, And That There Is Nothing Higher Or Greater Than It.

It Is To The Cross That The Christian Is Challenged To Follow His Master: No Path Of Redemption Can Make A Detour Around It.