You will find stability at the moment when you discover that God is everywhere, that you do not need to seek him elsewhere, that he is here, and if you do not find him here it is useless to go and search for him elsewhere because it is not him that is absent from us, it is we who are absent from him … It is important to recognise that it is useless to seek God somewhere else. If you cannot find him here you will not find him anywhere else. This is important because it is only at the moment that you recognise this that you can truly find the fullness of the Kingdom of God in all its richness within you.Metropolitan Anthony Bloom Seeking God by Esther de Waal (Canterbury Press, 1999)Love is the sole standard where God is concerned. Provided we come back to him, the past is entir
21 November 2013, The Tablet
Spiritual readings – 23 November 2013
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Which is exactly what we saw on-line during 4 nights of excruciatingly evasive near monosyllabic testimony.
Testimony which made Cardinal Pell’s many many years of study at the most prestigious of institutions both church sponsored and lay, at Monash, in Rome and at Oxbridge (both branches), culminating in a D Phil from Oxford University entitled “The exercise of authority in early Christianity...”seem like so much money down the drain. Especially given how tenuous apparently was the cardinal’s grasp of the natural moral law obligation on adults, irrespective of the presence or the absence of “hierarchical authority,” to move heaven and earth to protect children from any harm whatsoever. Still less from vile sexual abuse.
What sort of message is that?