From Deep Furrows: Three quotes on charisms in the Church:
"The Church is no abstract entity; only real, corporeal persons participate in her. They are ecclesial to the degree in which their personal mission - Origen speaks of an anima ecclesiastica [ecclesiastical soul] - their charism, extends into the reality of the universal Church, as happens, in the case of prayer, for instance, or of suffering."
See the whole post, quotes from a conversation between Hans Urs von Balthasar and Angelo Scola.
Closing the chasm between heaven and hell
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*Readings: Amos 6:1a.4-7; Psalm 146:7-10; 1 Timothy 6:11-16; Luke 16:19-31*
Jesus Christ, as our reading from 1 Timothy so directly states, is "the
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