The Catholic Book Club discussion

2. Share your favorite quotes or scenes from the story. Feel free to share why you found them noteworthy.

"Today there is a remarkable hatred among people for their own real greatness. Man sees himself as the enemy of life, of the balance of creation, as the great disturber of the peace of nature (which would be better off if he did not exist)."

(A citation from Ratzinger, To look on Christ.)

"In order to flee mediocrity and be faithful to the sublime vocation to which man is called--to become a saint, to have a share in the divine life--it is necessary to remain faithful in the little things."

"The saints are not content to apply a law. In a way that is ever new they construct their own activity under the movement of the Holy Spirit," which he terms first-person morality.

This quote resonated with me since I picked COMMUNION as my Word of the Year for 2022: citing Jean Mouroux's The Meaning of Man:

//“Communion with truth, with grandeur, with beauty, with other spiritual persons—there is the innermost heart of man. This is the plenitude, at once tranquilizing and exalting, to which he always aspires, often enough without knowing it. If there is joy in successful effort, there is a greater in realized communion. And it is because it achieves the deepest of communions, the communion of living persons with each other, that love is the unparalleled force it is, and source of a joy that does not pass”//

But ultimately, little matters. What does matter is to endure.