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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.

What The Father Gives Is The Capacity To Be A Self, Freedom, And Thus Autonomy, But An Autonomy Which Can Be Understood Only As A Surrender Of Self To The Other.

Our Situation Today Shows That Beauty Demands For Itself At Least As Much Courage And Decision As Do Truth And Goodness, And She Will Not Allow Herself To Be Separated And Banned From Her Two Sisters Without Taking Them Along With Herself In An Act Of Mysterious Vengeance.

To Be Sure, The Response Of Faith To Revelation, Which God Grants To The Creature He Chooses And Moves With His Love, Occurs In Such A Way That It Is Truly The Creature That Provides The Response, With Its Own Nature And Its Natural Powers Of Love.

If One Does Away With The Fact Of The Resurrection, One Also Does Away With The Cross, For Both Stand And Fall Together, And One Would Then Have To Find A New Center For The Whole Message Of The Gospel.