Visible Expression

The ecclesial community, while always having a universal dimension, finds its most immediate and visible expression in the parish. It is there that the Church is seen locally. In a certain sense it is...

"... the Church living in the midst of the homes of her sons and daughters..."

Pope John Paul II
Christifideles Laici [27]

Thursday, 28 February 2013

Maundy Thursday




"My Father, if it is possible, let this cup pass me by.
Nevertheless, let it be as you, not I, would have it."



Painting by Heinrich Hofmann 1890

"...And in the garden secretly,
and on the cross on high,
should teach his brethren, and inspire
to suffer and to die..."

From
Praise to the holiest in the height 
by Blessed John Henry Newman