Quote of the Day (O’Connor)

“The Church is founded on Peter who denied Christ three times and couldn’t walk on the water by himself. All human nature vigorously resists grace because grace changes us and the change is painful. Priests resist it as well as others. To have the Church be what you want it to be would require the continuous miraculous meddling of God in human affairs, whereas it is our dignity that we are allowed more or less to get on with those graces that come through faith and the sacraments and which work through our human nature.”-- Flannery O’Connor to Cecil Dawkins, 12/8/58, from The Habit of Being: Letters of Flannery O’Connor, edited by Sally Fitzgerald
(Thanks to Fr. Joseph O’Brien, O.Carm, St. Therese Church, Cresskill, N.J., for the inspiration)