Harm in the Church…
No one does more harm in the Church than he who has the title or rank of holiness and acts perversely.
–Saint Gregory the Great (c. 540-604)
The power of silence…
The Church must discover the power of silence. Confronted with the sorrows, doubts and uncertainties of people she cannot pretend to give easy solutions. In Jesus, silence becomes the way of attentive listening, compassion and prayer. It is the way to truth.
–Luis Antonio Tagle (1957-
Weaknesses and deficiencies…
Weaknesses and deficiencies … play a most important part in all our lives. It is because of them that we need others and others need us. We are not all weak in the same spots, and so we supplement and complete one another, each one making up in himself for the lack in another.
–Thomas Merton (1915-1968)
Spare the faith…
Whosoever you are who introduce new doctrines, I beseech you to spare the ears of Romans! Spare that faith which was commended by the voice of an Apostle. Why should you attempt to teach us, at the end of hundreds of years, that which we never heard before? Why bring forward what Peter and Paul did not will to make known? Until this day, the world was Christian without your doctrine. Thus, I hold as an old man onto that faith wherein I was regenerated as a boy.
–Saint Jerome (c. 340-420)
The Catholic Church…
Fly to the Catholic Church! Adhere to the only faith which continues to exist from the beginning, that faith which was preached by Paul and is upheld by the Chair of Peter.
–Saint Hippolytus (170-236)
Preaching of the Church…
The preaching of the Church truly continues without change and is everywhere the same. It has the testimony of the Prophets and Apostles and all their disciples.
–Saint Irenaeus of Lyons (late 2nd century)
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