Love stands at the center of the Church’s life
because that’s what the Holy Spirit is.
--Bishop Robert Barron
At the end of Matthew’s gospel, Jesus says: ‘Behold I am with you until the end of time.’ If the Lord stays, how could we go? God has made himself at home in us with all our scandalous limitations for ever. God remains in our Church, even with all the corruption and abuse. We must therefore remain.
But God is with us to lead us out into the wider open spaces of the Kingdom. We need the Church, our present home for all its weaknesses, but also to breathe the Spirit-filled oxygen of our future home without boundaries.
--Cardinal Timothy Radcliffe,
Synod Retreat Meditation,
October 2023
Image source: Participants on the Synod for Synodality, October 26, 2024, https://www.catholicnewsagency.com/news/260115/synod-final-document-key-changes-for-catholic-churchs-future
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