The supreme answer to prayer is the Beatific Vision, in the next world. But here below, the supreme response to real prayer is the entrance into the transforming union of the saints, like Saint John of the Cross, like Saint Teresa, entrance into great sanctity, into the life of the gifts of Wisdom, Understanding, and …
Tag Archives: Charles Journet
A God Laboured by the Work of His Hands!
Contemplation and action: The entrance of Christianity into the world shook the meaning of these words… Contemplation, as the ancients understood it, was reserved for the few, and manual labour was degrading… But when Jesus, the Word made flesh, came among us, and he laboured during his hidden life… you must think that this would …
Because it is Jesus
… because it is Jesus. The more a soul is with God, the more it is devoted to the Mass. The soul sees this intuitively. When God starts to call a soul, he gives it this hunger and thirst for the Mass. A day without the Mass is like a day without the sun. Charles Cardinal Journet (1891–1975)
Sleepers
Without contemplation, we are only sleepers; we pronounce the words of faith as in a dream and we sleepwalk. Christianity sleeps in us; we live it on paper and in words, but not in our life. Charles Cardinal Journet (1891–1975)
The Infinite Light of the Word on Calvary
The infinite light of the Word shines in the heart of the suffering of Jesus. The peace of God, dominating the vicissitudes of time, lives in his heart… There where the eyes of flesh see only a dreadful tragedy, the eyes of faith contemplate a palatial mystery. Charles Cardinal Journet (1891–1975)
Angels in the Church
The angel of the Lord declared unto Mary, and she conceived by the Holy Spirit. One of the remarkable things that I picked up in reading Charles Cardinal Journet (I was too stupid to notice this on my own) is that, at each of the Incarnational mysteries – Annunciation, Nativity, Resurrection, Ascension, and even the Temptation in the …
Contemplative in the Mud 