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Piquant excerpts lifted from Touchstone editors' own reading & listening.
Your mission is not to save a dying world. No civilization has the promises of eternal life. Your mission is to live out with fidelity and without compromise the faith you received from Christ. In that way, even without realizing it, you will save the heritage of many centuries of faith. Do not be afraid because of your small numbers! It is not a matter of winning elections or influencing opinions. It is a matter of living the Gospel. . . . Faith is like a fire. A person himself must be on fire in order to be able to transmit it. Watch over this sacred fire! May it be your heat in the depths of the winter of the West.
—Robert Cardinal Sarah
The Day Is Now Far Spent (2019)
— Society — Commonplaces #174 — July/August 2023 —
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