Summary of Cardinal Robert Sarah & Nicolas Diat's The Day Is Now Far Spent

Everest Media

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Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book.
Sample Book Insights:
#1 The modern world is afraid of God, afraid of becoming his disciple, and has said, I do not want to know God. It fears what others might think. It does not want to see its image reflected in the kindly eyes of Jesus.
#2 Faith is a Yes to God. It requires a person to leave his gods, his culture, and all human assurances in order to enter the land, culture, and inheritance of God. Faith consists of letting oneself be guided by God.
#3 Faith is a strong relationship between God and his people Israel. It is a loving response to a loving, covenantal initiative. It grows in an intense life of prayer and contemplative silence. It is nourished and strengthened in a daily face-to-face meeting with God and in an attitude of adoration and silent contemplation.
#4 The light of faith is a supernatural gift that comes from God. It is a light for our way that guides us throughout life. It is a break with our life of sin and the idols we have created, and a return to the living, true God through an encounter with him.

Sujets

• Religion
• Christianisme
• Israel
• Général
• Christianity
• Jésus de Nazareth
• Jesus
• Jesús de Nazaret

Informations

• Publié par: Everest Media LLC
• Date de parution: 06 avril 2022
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9781669379416
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 1 Mo

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Insights on Cardinal Robert Sarah & Nicolas Diat's The Day Is Now Far Spent
Contents Insights from Chapter 1 Insights from Chapter 2 Insights from Chapter 3 Insights from Chapter 4
Insights from Chapter 1

#1

The modern world is afraid of God, afraid of becoming his disciple, and has said, I do not want to know God. It fears what others might think. It does not want to see its image reflected in the kindly eyes of Jesus.

#2

Faith is a Yes to God. It requires a person to leave his gods, his culture, and all human assurances in order to enter the land, culture, and inheritance of God. Faith consists of letting oneself be guided by God.

#3

Faith is a strong relationship between God and his people Israel. It is a loving response to a loving, covenantal initiative. It grows in an intense life of prayer and contemplative silence. It is nourished and strengthened in a daily face-to-face meeting with God and in an attitude of adoration and silent contemplation.

#4

The light of faith is a supernatural gift that comes from God. It is a light for our way that guides us throughout life. It is a break with our life of sin and the idols we have created, and a return to the living, true God through an encounter with him.

#5

Faith is not just an individual decision made by the believer interiorly. It is not an isolated relationship between the I of the faithful and the divine Thou, between the autonomous subject and God. Faith always comes about in the community of the Church, because that is where God reveals himself fully and allows himself to be encountered as he is in reality.

#6

The Church needs the little remnant, the stump that will always revive so that the tree does not die. The saints are the cornerstone of mankind. They found God, and they found what is essential. They are the cornerstone of the Church.

#7

The Church’s mission is a mission of love, and love does not dominate. Love is there to serve and to die, so that man might have life, and have it abundantly.

#8

The loss of the sense of faith is the deep root of the crisis of civilization that we are experiencing. Without faith, human institutions seem to be on the path of decadence.

#9

The Church's relationship with modernity is a long-standing issue that has been addressed by the Second Vatican Council. However, many priests and Christians in the West were discontent with the Church's attitude towards modernity at the end of World War II.

#10

The Church remains a sign that will be opposed, not without reason. The Council could not have intended to abolish the Gospel’s opposition to human dangers and errors. Instead, it was intended to overcome erroneous or superfluous contradictions in order to present the Gospel in its full greatness and purity.

#11

The Church’s orientation toward the world cannot be a departure from the Cross. The Church must continually seek to reform herself, removing all the scandals caused by sinful men, so that she may more clearly present the first and irreplaceable scandal of the Cross: God walking ahead of the Cross out of love for mankind.

#12

The loss of the sense of God is at the root of all crises. We must remember that adoration is a personal act of heart-to-heart conversation with God, which we must learn. The priests and bishops of the Church are called to be constantly in the presence of God.

#13

The Christian faith must be refined to eliminate all traces of the sacred, and Christianity must be made an altogether interior contact with God without any concrete expression in life. Christianity becomes a form of gnosis.

#14

The act of faith today is often placed at the service of human development alone. While economic development, health care, and quality of life are important and indispensable, they are not the only things that are important.

#15

We must nourish our love for God through service to the poor. We must know that God is love, and that his presence is felt at the very time when we are only loving.

#16

Christianity is not a market governed by supply and demand. It is not a comfortable cocoon. Christianity relies on the love of a God who does not abandon his children. It is not a matter of requesting but of hoping and trusting in a God whose love is inexhaustible.

#17

The Catholic faith has a concept of transcendence that is expressed and symbolized by the altar. It represents the border between the realm of the world and the realm of God.

#18

The altar is the heart of our cities. It is a place of transcendence and a burning bush, where God’s majesty and holiness are manifested.

#19

The priest is not a professor who gives a lecture while using the altar as a podium centered on the microphone instead of the Cross. The altar is the sacred threshold par excellence, the place of the face-to-face encounter with God.

#20

Christians must constantly explain to people the type of happiness that they are called to. They must tell the world that technological advances are nothing compared to God’s love. Man bears in himself the image of God, and his soul is immortal.

#21

Modernity can be used as a signpost for the general attitude adopted by many of our intellectuals. This attitude is the result of the extraordinary conquests of modern science and the equally great disillusions that follow upon great dreams of progress.

#22

We must have the humility to receive salvation as a gratuitous grace. We must not assert our right to it. We must tremble with confidence and love because we have been given a great gift.

#23

The Western world no longer has any experience of the supernatural. We need to restore our ties with heaven. We must learn to see the things of God in the things of this world.

#24

The world that we must not love is not the world that was created and loved by God. It is the world that has become under the dominion of Satan and of sin. We must convert, and we must change direction.

#25

The light of the priesthood has been darkened. It pains me to say this, because I know that there are many faithful priests out there. But the Church is at risk because the meaning of the priesthood is unraveling.

#26

Prayer can be exhausting and seemingly sterile in a world of noise, aberrations, and agitation. However, it is a priority for priests to find time for prayer, the Divine Office, spiritual reading, adoration, and the celebration of the Eucharist.

#27

The priest must be in prayer all day. He must spend time alone with God, thinking about the Word of God. The priest must ask for help from the Lord, and then help others.

#28

The people of God demand of their priests that they lead them to Jesus. They want priests to put them in touch with him. The baptized want to know Christ personally, through their priests.

#29

The priestly vocation is a call to follow Jesus by leaving the world. The priest must not be preoccupied with whether he is appreciated by the faithful. He must simply ask himself whether he proclaims God’s Word, whether the doctrine he teaches is God’s, and whether he carries out God’s will.

#30

When the faith of the clergy weakens, something like an eclipse takes place: the world is plunged into dark shadows.

#31

The role of the priest is to sanctify, evangelize, and guide the people of God. He is the steward of the mysteries of God, and he proclaims the Good News of the Gospel. He must make Jesus Christ known and put those who want to know him into a true, intimate relationship with him.

#32