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Commonplaces
Piquant excerpts lifted from Touchstone editors' own reading & listening.
The Cross of Christ does something for us that we cannot do for ourselves. Everywhere else in the world we are spectators; but, facing the vision of the Cross, we pass from spectatorship to participation. If anyone thinks that the confession of his guilt is escapism, let him try once kneeling at the foot of the Crucifix. He cannot escape feeling involved. One look at Christ on the Cross, and the scab is torn from the ulcerous depths of sin as it stands revealed in all of its ugliness. Just one flash of that Light of the World shatters all the blindness that sins have begotten and burns into the soul the truth of our relationship to God. Those who have refused to go to Calvary are those who do not weep for their sins. Once a soul has gone there, it can no longer say that sin does not matter.
—Fulton J. Sheen
Peace of Soul (1949)
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