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| Dom Chautard |
So many enterprises in our time, and yet so often fruitless: why is it that they have not put society back on its feet? Let us
admit it once again: they can be counted
in far greater numbers than in preceding ages, and yet they have been unable to
check the frightful ravages of impiety in the field of family life. Why? Because they are
not firmly enough based on the interior life, the Eucharistic life, the
liturgical life, fully and properly understood. Leaders of
Catholic Action, at the head of these enterprises, have been full of logic, and
talent, and even of a certain piety. They have poured forth floods of
light, and have managed to introduce some devotional practices: and that, of
course, is already something. But because
they have not gone back nearly enough to the Source of life, they have not been
able to pass on to others that fervor which tempers wills to their great task.
Vain have been their attempts to produce that hidden but powerful devotion to
the cause, that active ferment working through whole groups of men. Those centers of supernatural attraction
for which there is no substitute and which, without noise, unceasingly spread
the fire around about them and slowly but surely penetrate all classes of
persons with whom they come into contact. These results
are beyond such apostles because their life in Christ is too weak.
+JMJ+
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