The Cross on which the Saviour of the world bled has been henceforth lifted up, for all time to come, as a radiant star capable of purifying from all crime and capable of illuminating all despairs. Charles Cardinal Journet (1891–1975)
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When We Receive the Eucharist…
When we receive the Eucharist, we are on the shore of the sea, taking just a few drops into our hand, and still the Infinite remains. Charles Cardinal Journet (1891–1975)
Belief Unchanged, Except to Say Deepened
Those great contemplatives are placed in that deep sea in which it seems as if nothing is any longer distinct, in the “cloud of unknowing”… And when once again they return to the surface, what do they find? When the sun begins to shine, the stars disappear: they find once again the formulas of the …
On the Road Here-Below
Here-below, on the road opened up by faith, love [charity] goes yet farther than faith. Charles Cardinal Journet (1891–1975)
For Whom are the Saints?
For whom are the saints? Well, for us sinners of course! We take them by the hand. Someone who does not give his hand may very well possess all the qualities we can think of, but one thing he could not be would be a Christian. Charles Cardinal Journet (1891–1975)
All the Way Down
We must go all the way down to the bottom. He [God] wants our whole heart. It is not only our behaviour he wants. Charles Cardinal Journet (1891–1975)
One of the Great Signs of Authentic Mystical Experience
One of the great signs of the authenticity of mysticism is the love of Jesus… It is the humanity of the Saviour that leads to the divinity, at the heart of the Trinity, where words must in the end give way to silence. Charles Cardinal Journet (1891–1975)
Wider
I am covninced that the Church is wider than is supposed, that she possesses everywhere children who do not know her and whom she does not know by name. Hence too my deep conviction – not indeed that the gate is not broad or the road wide that leads on to perdition (see Mt 7:13), but …
What is Mysticism?
Mysticism is [for Christians] love in all its intensity. Charles Cardinal Journet (1891–1975)
This Difference
There is a difference between faith and charity, that faith, being knowledge, reaches reality only by means of judgments to which it is required to give interior assent, while charity, being love, casts us upon reality just as it is outside us, in pure simplicity. Charles Cardinal Journet (1891–1975)
Contemplative in the Mud 