A kind of breviary of reflections for each day of the year from the Pope’s various writings. Taken from the book, Co-Workers Of The Truth (Ignatius)
The determination with which nowadays Jesus’ birth “of the Virgin” is rejected cannot be explained by pointing to the historical problems. The real and sustaining reason inspiring the historical questions lies elsewhere: in the difference between our world view and the biblical account, and in the notion that the latter has no place in...
The proper Marian devotion assures our faith of the simultaneous presence of indispensable reason and equally indispensable “reasons of the heart”, as Pascal would say. For the Church, man is neither reason alone nor feeling alone; he is the unity of both these dimensions. The head’s task is to think clearly, while the heart...
Mary, the undefiled handmaid of the Lord: her message is the feminine willingness to receive and to conceive. At the Rorate High Mass the Gospel of Annunciation and the miraculous conception of the Holy Child was read: “The angel Gabriel was sent by God to a town in...
