St. Irenaeus
We continue to atone for recent dispiriting posts concerning the Novus Ordo, by quoting hopeful passages from Fr. Henri de Lubac's "The Splendour of the Church:"
Whatever the difficulties we encounter and the disturbances which threaten to throw us off our balance, we should always keep a firm hold on [the equivalence of Christ and His Church].
Like Ulysses bound to the mast, ... we should hold on ... to the saving truth formulated for us by St. Irenaeus: "Where the Church is, there is the Spirit of God, and where the Spirit of God is, there is the Church and all grace, and the Spirit is Truth; to sever ourselves from the Church is to reject the Spirit" - and in virtue of that "to shut ourselves out of life."
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