Pope Benedict XVI Quotes - BrainyQuote

Pope Benedict XVI Quotes - BrainyQuote

Having a clear faith, based on the creed of the church is often labeled today as fundamentalism. Whereas relativism, which is letting oneself be tossed and swept along by every wind of teaching, look like the only attitude acceptable to today's standards.
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Magnificat - April 2010

In the Magnificat - April 2010 Editorial, Fr. Peter John Cameron, O.P. includes several quotes I would like to include in my "Quotary." These I will list first, and then make my own reflections after.

The texts Fr. Cameron quotes comprise around half his material, but he puts it all together so beautifully, please be sure to read his editorial to get the whole of what he was presenting. I am simply listing the quotes here because I value them so much and want to return to them again and again as I reflect on them, on how the truths in them relate to my own life. Be sure to read Fr. Cameron's editorials in the Magnificat. They are wonderful! And while you're at it, consider subscribing to the magazine. It is a treasure of daily Scriptures, prayers, articles, editorials, and art-work w/ commentary. I don't work for the Magnificat, and receive no compensation for telling others how wonderful I find it to be; I simply want to share this great treasure w/ others!

Okay, now for my favorite quotes or excerpts from Fr. Cameron's editorial:

By Pope Benedict XVI:

" [The human being is a] creature who wants to break out of the prison of
finitude, out of the closed confines of his ego and of this entire world
[because, in a way,] this world is too small for the human being."

"[Our experience tells us that] what we need is the presence in our lives
of what is real and permanent so that we can approach it -- a participation in
the way of the Lord, in God Himself."

"[The human being] yearns for the Other, the totally Other, that which is
beyond his own reach."

"In the liturgy, the absolutely Other comes among us."

"There are things we only understand with the heart; the mind can gradually
grow in understanding the more we allow our heart to illuminate it."

"What is new and distinctive about the Christian liturgy [is that] God
Himself acts and does what is essential." {Fr. Cameron quotes Pope
Benedict further, and all points made are worth noting, but I want to reflect on
this one part.}

[The liturgy is our daily] turning point in the process of redemption [--
the longed-for moment when] the Shepherd takes the lost sheep onto His shoulders
and carries it home."

By Pope John Paul II:

"Worship does not primarily consist in expressing human thoughts and
feelings, but in listening to the divine Word in order to know it, assimilate
it, and put it into practice in daily life."

By the 19th c. French poet Lautreamont:

"It appears from what I have been told that I am the offspring of a man and
a woman. I find this quite astonishing! I thought I was more than
that."