José Granados

“In Baptism we are received into the space of the communion of the Church, and in Confirmation we are given the power to extend this space, making it fruitful.”

“In each baptized person, through his baptismal character, the entire order of the Church (which is a eucharistic order) is inscribed.”

“Only a charity that builds up in harmony with the architecture of faith allows the Church to offer fruitful hope to the people of God in our troubled times.”

“If each sense is capax Dei (capable of God), the concrete acts we carry out in the flesh are weighty, and each one of our actions is full of our destiny.”

“Any redemption that is placed outside the mystery of man’s creation—as it is made known in the original experiences of the body—is not true redemption.”

“It is precisely the experience of the body as the opening of the person to the world that is decisive for understanding why the Christian sacraments cannot be received virtually.”

“[T]he body possesses a radical alterity: it precedes us and does not permit itself to be molded by our projects.”

[T]he sacraments (with their source in the Eucharist) are the form of tradition; and that tradition is the content of the sacraments.

“Modernity has not become secularized because it has relied too much on what is earthly, but rather because it has expected too little of it.”

Christian liturgy is so closely bound up with life because it is born of a concrete life: it is because the rite is rooted in the life of Christ.

"The healthy body is the body in relation, situated in its environment and open to encounters and personal connections that sustain and animate it and point, finally, to the original mystery of life."

“Belonging to the one flesh of Jesus and the Church is what makes the one flesh of the spouses new, sealing it with the same indissolubility of Christ’s love for his members.”

"If the human body is the source of symbols, the ultimate example is the body of Jesus; if human history aims at transcendence, its unsurpassable crown is the life of Jesus."

“It is through the family that the Church bestows form to a world that otherwise risks losing its symbolism and, therefore, its ordered unity.”

“The Ascension is another step forward in the deepening bond of the flesh of Christ with the Church, and, through her, with the entire cosmos: ‘He ascended . . . that he might fill all things’ (Eph 4:10).”

“The space opened in man by the bodily senses and affectivity is the space in which God’s Word has let himself be experienced in fullness.”

“Christianity’s contribution to our culture does not need to accept the great rift that divides our modern world, but consists rather in healing it. The resurrection of the flesh is precisely a witness that this healing is possible.”

“The true secret of Christian hope is that it feeds on suffering. The art of hope consists of finding precisely within the suffering that seems to obstruct the future, the key that opens it up.”

“This is the paradox, then, that opens up before the father. With the birth of his child, he receives a new existence: the core of his own identity has been changed; he is now someone different, because his own being extends into another.”

“Christianity’s contribution to our culture does not consist in accepting the great rift that divides our modern world, but rather in healing it. The resurrection of the flesh is precisely a witness that this healing is possible.”

“The flesh of Christ constitutes the place where transcendence can be most properly shown. The body and the concrete time frame of Jesus’s life are not only ways of making the imago Dei shine through, but are themselves the structure that allows the image to appear.”

“It is not enough then for the word to come down from heaven; it must also be born from the flesh. Hence it cannot be uttered all at once; it cannot dispense with the lapse of time required by the entire life of Jesus.”

“What is revealed about the body through suffering is its openness to the world in the form of vulnerability. This openness guides us to solidarity with our fellow men: the body becomes a place of communion by means of compassion.”

"The same problems that arose with regard to ANT apply equally to ANT-OAR."

“The final destiny of all the creation is the resurrected body.”

“When it describes the ages of Jesus’ life and identifies the laws that shape his time, the theology of the mysteries unlocks the meaning, not only of Christian existence, but of history and of the world itself.”