Participation of the Church in all the interior states of the Saviour: that’s sanctity. The word “contemplation” does not suffice to tell it all. We need to enter into it all: the interior states of the Christ child, of Christ teaching, of Christ suffering, dying, risen… “It is no longer I who live, but Christ who lives in me” (Gal 2:20). This signifies that all the stages of Jesus’ life have repercussions in the lives of the saints… Contemplation makes the Church experience in herself the mysteries of her God-Saviour.
Charles Cardinal Journet (1891–1975)