comes after the break today would increase the amount of Pere de Lubac reflection on the homo ecclesiasticus, the church people. You'd think it was written for now and here. Read yourself:
"He is not an extremist and distrusts the exaggerations, but because it the sacraments of the Church have not given a spirit of timidity, but of power, he does not hesitate to work for the defense or the honor of his faith. Knowing how much one can sin by omission, talk and act it then with boldness, 'convenient or not', even at the risk of displeasing many to be so misunderstood by those to whose consent would be him most. He carefully avoids the dead ends, to warn against the authority he thinks more of the positive duties to which they urged him, and he sees the urgency faced by human wisdom but would express themselves best. Gladly he would always be ready, as indeed Peter calls already, to put before all men account for the hope of fulfilling it, feared the most, by getting used to his narrow horizon and its convenience to to be incapable. He always wants not just think 'the Church', but - as the author said the 'Spiritual Exercises' - 'in the Church', but this requires a deeper faith, a more intimate participation and a freer attitude: that of the real son that belongs to the house. He can always re-teach himself to draw, model, not by habit and propriety, but by the dogmatic truth. How Newman it was, can he be sensitive (often more than others) for the 'difficulties of religion', but how this great man, he sees "between the fact that we perceive difficulties, even if extended acute or , and the doubts about the secret, from which they spring, "no real connection. He also feels not trying to beat the spiritual heritage into pieces, which we have been entrusted for the present 'by men of the stature of Irenaeus , Athanasius , Augustin or Thomas . He brought on the contrary, to preserve it and to bring to bear. And he wants those who cling zealously, but often faint because prove that this legacy to become richer and of greater nutritional content is, as they say, that everything revolves fruchtbbarer juice in it, but the first fruits of new promises. He disdains any modern self-righteousness, and all forms of theological liberalism " (The Church .- Einsiedeln: Johannes, 1968, p. 223 - 225)
Père de Lubac. cited in abundance in his books, this meditation on the church. I save that for now.
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