“Christians are those who
find in [Jesus’] life and death an astounding fountain of joy and hope and
life; who affirm and are content to affirm what he affirmed about God, because
they find in that affirmation a realism which does justice to life in all its
horror and all its glory. Not sad, high-minded men with a handful of
high-minded, bleak ideals, but citizens of a world whose heart is love. We know
in the way of Jesus, not a
law, but a liberation into true humanity; the
power to love, to belong to one another, to start again when things go wrong,
to be grateful, to adore.”—Irish church historian Eamon Duffy, Faith of Our Fathers: Reflections on Catholic Tradition (2004)
The photo of Eamon Duffy
accompanying this post was taken Apr. 24, 2010, by Fr. James Bradley from
Southampton, UK.
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