The Unity and Mission of the Church Communio at 50 Years

“We do not create [the liturgy]; we celebrate it as it is given to us with reverence and humility, always seeking to give of our best in the worship of almighty God.”

“It is no surprise that reason separated from faith ends up violently irrational, or that nature separated from grace ends up grotesquely unnatural, or that history separated from ontology ends up hostile to tradition and banal.”

“[E]fforts of dialogue toward communion should be performed . . . from a place of meekness rather than assertion, such that genuine understanding might take place.”

“The surprise that parts bring with them qua non essential (or extra essential) accords with the kind of resource out of which they pour, for all actuality is perfect in sharing itself liberally, and so in ‘letting itself’ be enriched by the novelty of what it perfects by this self-sharing.”

“The stillness at the heart of all poetry arises from the mysterious coinherence of all analogies.”

“Like grapes and olives, our lives are marked by the experience of being ‘ground’ and ‘crushed,’ which is the means by which God mysteriously transforms us into something altogether new and glorious.”

“We must relearn to trust in the intelligibility of reality, and in our own reason as a natural manifestation of the richness of reality.”

“Christ is ever-greater not because his divinity is increased by his Incarnation, as some might be led to think, but because he is ‘the God to whose birth for us there is no end.’”

“When God gives the gift of finite freedom, he really gives it, and therefore genuinely allows himself to be conditioned by it.”

“[P]ursuing catholicity has the effect of a crucifixion, stretching Christ’s bride as it does into a painful christoformity.”

“The Word in itself is worthy of veneration, and time spent dwelling with the words of Scripture needs no further justification.”