Romano Guardini on the Church
In the early part of the twentieth century, the Catholic Church was blessed with a man who wrote with a clear intellect and sharp pen. That man's name was Romano Guardini. His words and ministry marked a renewal in Christian consciousness as well as in believers' understanding of Church's Liturgy.
This author was eminently blessed earlier today with an opportunity to read and pray over a few of Guardini's remarks about the nature of the universal Church. Those same remarks have been reproduced below for other readers' edification.
"The very fact of the Church has become a living power. We are beginning to understand that the Church is everything. We begin to feel what the Saints felt, when they spoke so passionately in her defense. Did not their words sometimes seem to us but empty phrases? But now it is different. The philosopher will come to see in the Church the final and conclusive answer to his earnest search for the roots of all reality. The artist will come to find in her powerful beauty the fulfilment of his restless seeking for complete perfection of form. The moralist will find that she possesses complete perfection of life, when all human striving is sanctified in Christ, when all right and wrong become plain, and the Kingdom of God ultimately prevails. The politician (in the proper sense of him who seeks the public good) will come to realize that she has the answer to the problem of social order and of every man's fulfilment of his vocation in society."
Let us always look to holy mother Church for guidance through all of life's most trying journeys; for answers to all of life's most vexing questions!
God Bless.
This author was eminently blessed earlier today with an opportunity to read and pray over a few of Guardini's remarks about the nature of the universal Church. Those same remarks have been reproduced below for other readers' edification.
"The very fact of the Church has become a living power. We are beginning to understand that the Church is everything. We begin to feel what the Saints felt, when they spoke so passionately in her defense. Did not their words sometimes seem to us but empty phrases? But now it is different. The philosopher will come to see in the Church the final and conclusive answer to his earnest search for the roots of all reality. The artist will come to find in her powerful beauty the fulfilment of his restless seeking for complete perfection of form. The moralist will find that she possesses complete perfection of life, when all human striving is sanctified in Christ, when all right and wrong become plain, and the Kingdom of God ultimately prevails. The politician (in the proper sense of him who seeks the public good) will come to realize that she has the answer to the problem of social order and of every man's fulfilment of his vocation in society."
Let us always look to holy mother Church for guidance through all of life's most trying journeys; for answers to all of life's most vexing questions!
God Bless.
