Inspired by Truth, Enlightening Minds for the Church in Canada and Throughout the World
Inspired by Truth, Enlightening Minds for the Church in Canada and Throughout the World
‘Shunning’, ‘exclusion’, ‘forbidding’, even, dare we add, ‘excommunication’ – hardly words that are often connected with ‘love’, which on the contrary oft goes along – at least in our common usage – with the affirming nature of ‘everyone is welcome’ and ‘who am I to judge’. But charity, love in the truest sense, to will[…]
It is not surprising that she was more effective than he, since as John says, God is love, it was absolutely right that she could do more, as she loved more. (Saint Gregory the Great, on why Saint Scholastica’s prayer was heard rather than Benedict’s)
