"The world urgently needs a re-awakening of the Church in our actions and in our public and private witness...We need really to believe what we say we believe. Then we need to prove it by the witness of our lives. We need to be so convinced of the truths of the Creed that we are on fire to live by these truths, to love by these truths, and to defend these truths, even to the point of our own discomforts and suffering. We are ambassadors of the living God to a world that is on the verge of forgetting him. Our work is to make God real; to be the face of his love; to propose once more to the men and women of our day, the dialogue of salvation...The form of the Church, and the form of every Christian life, is the form of the cross. Our lives must become a liturgy, a self offering that embodies the love of God and the renewal of the world... Let us preach Jesus Christ with all the energy of our lives. And let us support each other -whatever the cost- so that when we make our accounting to the Lord, we will be numbered among the faithful and courageous, and not the cowardly or the evasive, or those who compromised until there was nothing left of their convictions; or those who were silent when they should have spoken the right word at the right time."
Archbishop Charles J. Chaput, Head of the Archdiocese of Denver, Colorado
A really good post, thank you. The Church desperately needs more leaders like Archbishop Chaput. May I have your permission to reproduce it in my blog (whitesmokeahoy), I will of course credit you.
ReplyDeletePlease repost. We need to spread the good news as much as possible. It was quoted in this week's readings from Magnificat and then I received it from an email. So it is making the rounds. I'd be delighted to have you point folks here.
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