Occupation: Priest Birth: September 13, 1921 Death: December 13, 1983
Centuries of secularism have failed to transform eating into something strictly utilitarian. Food is still treated with reverence...To eat is still s….
The only real fall of man is his noneucharistic life in a noneucharistic world..
How torturous is the "churchly" language one must speak in church - the tone, style, habit. It is all artificial; there is a total absence of a simpl….
We should have understood long ago that there is, in this world, religion without God, religion as a center of all idols that possess fallen man, rel….
If the Church is in Christ, its initial act is always the act of thanksgiving, of returning the world to God..
It seems to me that any ideology is bad because it is inevitably reductive and identifies other ideologies as evil, and itself with truth, whereas bo….
For one who thinks food in itself is the source of life, eating is the communion with the dying world, it is communion with death. Food itself is dea….
In the process of replacing the old religions, Christianity became a religion..
Man is a hungry being. But he is hungry for God. Behind all the hunger of our life is God. All desire is finally a desire for Him..
Academic theology is false..
Love is the essence of the holiness of the Church..
Principles are what people have instead of God..
Every evil screams only one message: 'I am good.'.