“When you pray, you only have to ask for two things:
You should ask for the light to see the will of God,
and you have to ask for the courage to be able to do the will of God.”
Venerable Msgr. Aloysius Schwartz
(my own peter cottontail / Julie Cook / 2018)
This is the question that arises over and over again,
particularly in our hour of a new paganism and also of a new longing for God:
Is the light of God, the light of Jesus Christ, hidden under the bushel of our habits,
our indifference, under the flood of our words,
so that beneath them the word can no longer shine forth?
Or can it emerge and once again become light for all who live in God’s house,
in his creation?
Joseph Ratzinger
from Teaching and Learning the Love of God: Being a Priest Today
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