I'm enjoying a slow read of Patience with God. Tomas Halik's writing is beautiful even in translation from the Czech, and there is a quite different sense of the importance of religious experience and of God from someone whose early background is in state communism, but now is a priest free to practice in a Westernised country which has less sense of God!
Oh God, how I pray for the church to fulfill St Paul's vision of a body in which all the parts complement each other in their diversity and respect each other's specific purpose, where the eye doesn't say to the hand or the head doesn't tell the foot, "I do not need you". How I wish that we could realize at last, with all its implications, that the "body of Christ" needs eyes that look progressively ahead, feet that stand firmly on the soil of tradition, hands that intervene actively in the world's affairs, and attentive, hearing ears that silently and contemplatively liste to the beating of God's heart.
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