Who among us does not find the inn of Emmaus to be a familiar abode? Who has not walked this road one evening when all seemed lost? Christ died in us. They had taken him from us: the world, philosophers and scholars, our passion. There was no more Jesus for us on the earth. We […]
FRANÇOIS MAURIAC
VIGILS, ON THE EVE OF THE FIRST SUNDAY OF ADVENT
“Vigils, sleep, agony, death–God shares all of these states of the human condition with us because He was also a man, but a man present everywhere because He was God. He is present first of all in the Church; he is present by His grace within us as He is present in the Sacrament on […]