Posted on 01/18/2015 8:58:32 AM PST by cleghornboy
“We are not heading for an eternal void and an eternal silence but we are on our way to an encounter, an encounter with Him who created us and loves us more than mother and father.” (Fr. Raniero Cantalamessa, see here).
Only a delusional mind could advance such a hypothesis. At a time when children are being slaughtered in the womb, governments are promoting sodomy and so-called "gay marriage," terrorism and other forms of violence are on the rise, there is general immorality with people engaging in and condoning various mortal sins, and the Churches are emptying, we are supposed to believe that we are not heading for the void but for the Kingdom of God?
In his powerful classic entitled, "The Flight from God," the eminent Swiss philosopher Max Picard writes: "In every age man has been in flight from God. What distinguishes the Flight to-day from every other flight is this: once Faith was the universal, and prior to the individual; there was an objective world of Faith, while the Flight was only accomplished subjectively, within the individual man. It came into being through the individual man's separating himself from the world of Faith by an act of decision. A man who wanted to flee had first to make his own flight. The opposite is true to-day. The objective and external world of Faith is no more; it is Faith which has to be remade moment by moment through the individual's act of decision, that is to say, through the individual's cutting himself off from the world of the Flight. For to-day it is no longer Faith which exists as an objective world, but rather the Flight
(Excerpt) Read more at lasalettejourney.blogspot.com ...
He doesn’t get out much.
Where we go after that doesn't appear to have been addressed in the excerpt.
Many are already there. And more on the way.
What a fitting name for a priest.
Cantalamessa - Sings the Mass.
The quotation from Fr. Cantalamessa begins with the word "we," and is from a sermon he gave on the First Sunday of Advent in *2006* (well before the current pontificate, btw), and the context is where we are going as Christian believers when we die, that is, heaven. The word "culture" never even appears.
Don't believe me? Go here and read the whole sermon yourself.
Do you radtrad types still understand that calumny -- calumny of a priest, no less! -- is still a sin, or have you expunged that from your catechism?
Thanks for the link. Father Cantalamessa is one of my favorite spiritual writers/speakers. I often carry “The Holy Spirit in the Life of Christ” around in my purse for weeks at a time (and read it on the treadmill or at stoplights.)
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