The faith of the Church is this: That one and identical is the Word of God and the Son of Mary Who suffered on the Cross, Who is present in the Eucharist, and Who rules in Heaven
Interpretation
The quote emphasizes the unity of God, Jesus Christ, and the Eucharist within the beliefs of the Church.
Pope Pius XII expresses the fundamental belief of the Church that there is a singular divine and human presence in the figure of Jesus Christ, identifying Him as both the Word of God and the Son of Mary. This unity underlines core tenets of faith regarding Christ's passion, His presence in the Eucharist, and His sovereignty in Heaven, illustrating a holistic view of Christian belief that encompasses life, sacrifice, and divine governance.
In practice
During a sermon on the significance of faith in times of trial.
If a worker is deprived of hope to acquire some personal property, what other natural stimulus can be offered him that will inspire him to hard work, labor, saving and sobriety today, when so many nations and men have lost everything and all they have left is their capacity for work?
To live without risk is to risk not living.
It might be said that society speaks through the clothing it wears. Through its clothing it reveals its secret aspirations and uses it, at least in part, to build or destroy its future.
True science discovers God in an ever-increasing degree — as though God were waiting behind every door opened by science.
You lose nothing through peace. You can lose everything through war.
Let no Christian therefore, whether philosopher or theologian, embrace eagerly and lightly whatever novelty happens to be thought up from day to day, but rather let him weigh it with painstaking care and a balanced judgment, lest he lose or corrupt the truth he already has, with grave danger and damage to his faith.
I am the wheat of God, and am ground by the teeth of the wild beasts, that I may be found the pure bread of God.
[Amy Carmichael's] great longing was to have a "single eye" for the glory of God. Whatever might blur the vision God had give her of His work, whatever could distract or deceive or tempt other to seek anything but the Lord Jesus Himself she tried to eliminate.
We let ourselves be molded and transformed by Christ and continually pass from the side of one who destroys to that of the one who saves.
A faith that can be destroyed by suffering is not faith.
Let anyone laugh and taunt if he so wishes. I am not keeping silent, nor am I hiding the signs and wonders that were shown to me by the Lord many years before they happened, who knew everything, even before the beginning of time.
Our obedience is God's pleasure when it proves that God is our treasure. This is good news, because it means very simply that the command to obey is the command to be happy in God. The commandments of God are only as hard to obey as the promises of God are hard to believe. The Word of God is only as hard to obey as the beauty of God is hard to cherish.
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