Bishop Fulton J. Sheen
To the zealous Christian every country is a mission country; every banquet room a Simon’s house where another Magdalen can be found; every ship another bark of Peter from which nets of salvation can be let down; every crowded city street another Tyre and Sidon where the whelps that eat the crumbs from the master’s table can be rewarded for their faith; and every cross is a throne where thieves become courtiers.
There are those that would destroy every mark of the Savior’s feet from the face of the earth. There are those who would renew the crucifixion by hating those who preach His love; the wicked today hide not the shame of their sins, but seek to find others and make others like unto themselves, in order to find consolation in their corporate decadence.
But these are not reasons to go into the catacombs and leave the earth to the race of Cain. While these enemies of Divine Love live, they are still purchasable by Divine Grace and are potential children of the kingdom of God. They are our opportunities.
Our Lord thirsted for them on the Cross, and we must thirst for them too, and love them enough to try to save them.
One thing is certain, we are not called to be Christians to damn them, but to save them, in order that all men may be one great redeemed humanity and Christ its Sacred Heart.
— (The Rainbow of Sorrow, New York, Garden City Books, 1938, p. 64-65).
Private Interpretation of Scripture
St. Augustine asked the question, “Do you want to know how heresies are produced? And he answered it, “The Scriptures, which are good in themselves, were badly interpreted, and it was precisely this bad interpretation that men supported with audacity and assurance.”
“It is fatal to divorce the Bible that is speechless from the Church that speaks. Theologically, it cannot be a question of the Bible or the Church, or the Church versus the Bible. The exact theology is the fact of the Bible in the Church. The New Testament is the witness to the living voice of the Church in the first century, and in every century it must exist in the vital continuity of the Christian tradition.” — Rt. Rev. Msgr. John J. Dougherty in Searching the Scriptures, Hanover House, 1959.
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"The Catholic Church is the only thing which will save a man from the degrading slavery of being a child of his age.”
— G.K. Chesterton
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Our Lord thirsted for them on the Cross, and we must thirst for them too, and love them enough to try to save them.
One thing is certain, we are not called to be Christians to damn them, but to save them, in order that all men may be one great redeemed humanity and Christ its Sacred Heart.
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Beautiful and inspiring! Thanks, Frank.
Well Augustine jumped right in then and translated the scripture correctly, right??? Let's see 'em...Where they at??? At your church??? Are they one of the more than two hundred translations created from your church's manuscripts???