‘Today, even
after thirty years, I would be able to find along this out-of-the-way trail in
the Black Forest of Germany... the tree under which I was touched as if by
lighting. I was taking part in a
30 day retreat while studying German philology. In this group, it would be considered a disgrace to defect
and take up the study of theology.
But it was neither theology nor the priesthood which came to mind at
this time. It was simply this: you
have nothing to choose, for you are called; ...you are but a small stone in a
mosaic conceived from the beginning.’[1]
[1] Pourquoi je me suisfait prêtre; témoignages recueillis, cited in Achiel Peelman, Le salut comme drame trinitaire: la “Theodramatik”
de Hans Urs von Balthasar (Montreal: Médiaspaul, 2002), p. 25.
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