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Sunday, June 29, 2003
Ratzinger on Unity and Communion
Nothing can be preserved, nothing can be gained, by division. For when the quality that was once the form of the Church is now used against her, it is no longer the same. It has been cut off, has become the expression of one's own self-will and, in the process, has been profoundly changed. Only unity can be fruitful. Augustine illusrated this with great forcefulness with respect to the experiences of his African homeland. . . . He exlaimed to the Donatists: Even though you have all these: the same Amen, the same Alleluia, that means the same canon and the same hymns, the same Credo, there is one thing you do not have: by rupturing unity, you have destroyed love; but it is in love that the Holy Spirit dwells, and without him you have but an empty form. Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger I came across these quotes today in Co-Workers Of the Truth, (Ignatius Press 1992) -- an anthology of "meditations for every day of the year" by Cardinal Ratzinger, selected with his approval. Regretfully these particular quotes are simply attributed to "Ordinariatskorrespondenz - , July 10, 1977, published by the Pressestelle des Erzbishchöflichen Ordinariats, Munich-Fresing," which doesn't really provide a suitable context. It would be interesting to know to whom he was addressing specifically in these cases. Nevertheless, I thought the content alone it was worth posting for reflection. Labels: ratzinger
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