Hymns of Charity
  • Kathy
    Posts: 5,500
    "If we think of the saints, we recognise the variety of their spiritual gifts and their human characters. But the life of each one of them is a hymn to charity, a living canticle to the love of God." Pope Benedict XVI
  • Maureen
    Posts: 675
    I like that very much.

    Goes with his cathedral/stained glass metaphor, too, if I remember aright.
  • Richard R.
    Posts: 774
    Oh, that's better, Kathy. I thought maybe you'd written something new for the Bishop's Lenten Appeal...
  • Kathy
    Posts: 5,500
    Hah! Hahah!!!!

    Notice that the Holy Father did not say that the saints are Introits, or Graduals to charity. (Zing!)
  • miacoyne
    Posts: 1,805
    Maybe Mass properly done helps saints become saints, and we learn true humility of Christ's love by being obedient to the Church even when she gives us freedom to choose the better? I believe that's how the life of saints can become a true hymn to God.

    (Save the Liturgy, save the world.)
Add a Comment