The Bread of God
I came across these quotes from St. Ignatius again yesterday. These are very encouraging words that remind me to live is Christ, to die is gain . Our faith is a paradox. I have to die if I want to live. While St. Ignatius was going to his physical death, I am called to pick up my cross daily.... with my wife, my family, my church, my co-workers and the world. We don't consider ourselves dead for the sake of death, but for the paradox that we find True Life in our daily dying to self-will. ... request on my behalf both inward and outward strength, ... that I may not merely be called a Christian, but really found to be one. For if I be truly found a Christian, I may also be called one, and be then deemed faithful, when I shall no longer appear to the world. Nothing visible is eternal. For the things which are seen are temporal, but the things which are not seen are eternal. The Christian is not the result of persuasion, but of power. When he is hated by the world, he is beloved...