Monday, June 6, 2011

"The Church is the Cross on which Christ was crucified"

...And yet I do know too that if any bishop or archbishop started to take the poor into his palace, or moved out of his palace to live with the poor, he would be considered mad.  And he would suffer the fate of the fool.

Bishops and priests may long to make this gesture, but their own humility no doubt restrains them. Some day may God put His hand upon them so unmistakably that they know they are called on to this gesture, to this madness...

"The Church is the Cross on which Christ was crucified, and who can separate Christ from His Cross," Guardini has written...--Dorothy Day, The Long Loneliness, pg. 218.

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