Catholic Quote of the Day

A Key to the Doctrine of the Eucharist, by Abbot Vonier.

. . Faith is truly a contact with Christ, a real, psychological contact with Christ, which if once established, may lead man into the innermost glories of Christ’s life. Without this contact of faith we are dead to Christ, the stream of His life passes us by without entering into us, as a rock in the midst of a river remains unaffected by the turbulent rush of waters. This contact of faith makes man susceptible to the influences of Christ; under normal conditions it will develop into the broader contacts of hope and charity; but it is the first grafting of man on Christ which underlies all other fruitfulness. Till faith be established the great redemption has not become our redemption; the riches of Christ are not ours in any true sense; we are members of the human race, but we are not members of Christ.

. . . [Quoting St. Thomas Aquinas] “As the ancient Fathers were saved through faith in the Christ to come, so are we saved through faith in the Christ who has already been born and has suffered.”

. . . Unless we grasp that function of faith as the psychic link between Christ and the soul Catholicism becomes unintelligible. . . . The Church is constituted primarily through faith, and her powers are meant for those who possess that supernatural responsiveness of soul."