Two quotes
Submitted by Alma on November 19 2001 19:50:18
In reply to You misspelled Huh submitted by Gabe on November 19 2001 14:41:12
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"Everything that is and was will cease to be," that's what I like about you Irish, you're so up-beat (sarcasm). Just two quotes that popped into my head: Catholics seem to imagine their clergy differently than do members of other denominations. Despite themselves and the crisis in their morale, priests are nonetheless perceived as sacraments of a world that transcends our own. They are the sacramental persons par excellence. They want to be, if one is to credit the passionate assertions of some priests, "just like everyone else." But the Catholic imagination, fully aware of the human limitations of its clergy, still imagines them as "different," as hints of what the ever-lurking God is like, as rumors of angels, as men who point to a world beyond themselves, as signals of the transcendent God. -Andrew Greeley "The Catholic Myth" "Just cause I have the name of an angel doesn't mean I am one." It is not because angels are holier than men or devils that makes them angels, but because they do not expect holiness from one another, but from God alone. -William Blake |
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