‘Christianity owes it to the world to make
a clear connection between its testimony to the sole Redeemer, in whose name it
takes “every thought captive to obey Christ” (2 Cor. 10.5), and the witness of
the Holy Spirit, which causes the entire world to awake to a religious freedom
and universality which, left to itself, it could never attain nor imagine. … | Unless,
in Christ, the world has been given the trinitarian “Word of life” to hear, to
see and to touch; unless the preaching, the life and all the institutions of
the Catholic Church present divine life, opened up and rendered accessible to
[mankind], the world could justly regret the fact that man’s religious contemplation
has been taken over by dogma; indeed it would be right to regard it as the
greatest catastrophe in mankind’s religious history. So we see that the Christian has an absolute duty to
cultivate Trinitarian contemplation; he must come to see that what Jesus shows
us of himself, what he bids us imitate, is the inner life of God, appearing in
Person and overtaking us.’[1]
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