The blood of the church: love Just as the human heart must have blood to maintain life, so must the church have love to live. The metaphors are not mine but Madeleine Debrel’s, Venerable Madeleine Debrel. The blood of the church: love. She was a poet, this French mystic who poured out her life for […]
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The passion of patience It’s a peculiar phrase: “the passion of patience.” Almost oxymoronic- in its combining the vigor of the heft-filled word passion with the passive neutrality of patience. The phrase was coined by Venerable Madeleine Debrel.. A former atheist turned Catholic apologist who lived and died during the last century. Her poem The Passion of Patience begins with
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