George Bastedo IV > Recent Status Updates

"We imagine all too often that we must offer beautiful things to God. But the beautiful does not need to be offered to God. It is already in God's sphere. It is the evil, that which has not yet found its right place that must be lifted up and placed there where it belongs, in God's radiance."

"The transformation of bread and wine in the Eucharist teaches us that transformation is something fundamental in our lives. Everything can be trasnformed. ... Everything that we offer in the Eucharist together with the bread and wine—our joy, our sorrow, even our sins—becomes transformed. Everything that was a minus becomes a plus. Everything becomes grace."

"The Christian ethic is not a list of commandments. It is a Person, Jesus himself, who through the Eucharist unites himself with us and lives in us. He constitutes the norm; he is the rule. When it is a question of the Christian ethic, one can never be finished. The more we love, the more we realize that his love is always greater."

"Forgiveness is beginning again to love with more gratuitousness and generosity when love has been badly hurt."

"Don't wait until tomorrow to begin becoming a saint."

"I read how the Israelites built the walls of Jerusalem, working with one hand and holding a sword in the other. (Neh. 4:11) That is what we must do: never give ourselves over entirely to our tasks."