Words (below) of Leon
Bloy who was the stimulus to the conversion of Jacques and Raissa Maritain to
Catholicism – and in my own case, studying Maritain was a decisive factor in my
recognition of the vocation to Opus Dei:
“Every man who begets
a free act projects his personality into the infinite. If he gives a poor man a
penny grudgingly, that penny pierces the poor man’s hand, falls, pierces the
earth, bores holes in suns, crosses the firmament and compromises the universe.
If he begets an impure act, he perhaps darkens thousands of hearts whom he does
not know, who are mysteriously linked to him, and who need this man to be pure
as a traveler dying of thirst needs the Gospel’s draught of water. A charitable
act, an impulse of real pity sings for him the divine praises, from the time of
Adam to the end of the ages; it cures the sick, consoles those in despair,
calms storms, ransoms prisoners, converts the infidel and protects mankind.”
This is the pulse that
beat/s –within my experience - in the
veins of St. Josemaria Escriva, Blessed John Paul II, Benedict XVI and Pope
Francis
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