Heading into the final week of my focus on clerical abuse, here are some quotes on different topics that were posted to Facebook, Instagram, and X recently:

The Christian vocation is to walk on water, without any human support, in pure faith, in hope, and in pure charity, even without any feeling, keeping one’s gaze fixed on God. — Raïssa Maritain

If you love Christ, it is fitting that anyone for whom he shed his blood should be important to you. — Saint John of Avila

It’s something that fascinates me, the fact that, being a human being, I am incapable of knowing and recognizing everyone who exists in this world… How can I accept to be limited to the point of knowing only a few human beings and knowing them so badly, though they are my brothers? … This is an experience that can be overcome in the hope of salvation, where the innumerable crowd will be seen and known. God alone can have this view of humanity in its entirety. — Cardinal Jean-Marie (Aron) Lustiger

To contemplate, alone with Him alone, God in the humanity of Jesus; and to contemplate Jesus through our neighbour, whom he loves and whom we love—these are the two most highly desirable paths of contemplation for someone engaged in the labours of the world. — Jacques Maritain

How much, O my Master, would I like to stay with you in silence. But what I love more than anything is that your will should be done, and since for now you want me to live in the world, I submit to this with all my heart for love of you. I give you the cell of my heart to be for you another Bethany. Come rest with me, I love you so. — Saint Elizabeth of the Trinity