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All that is Catholic comes clanging up against the human experience as we live it today, and there can be no harmony, no perfect rhythm, no rightly-ordered life until the world is discarded, forgotten and fades away, and only Christ remains. So easy to say, (more impotent chatter) so inutterably hard to do, and only the grace of God will illuminate each faltering step.

“It is precisely when every earthy hope has been explored and found wanting, when every possibility of help from earthy sources has been sought and is not forthcoming, when every recourse this world offers, moral as well as material, has been drawn on and expended with no effect, when in the shivering cold every faggot has been thrown on the fire, and in the gathering darkness every glimmer of light has finally flickered out – it is then that Christ’s hand reaches out, sure and firm, that Christ’s words bring their inexhaustible comfort, that His light shines brightest, abolishing the darkness for ever”
Malcolm Muggeridge