“The beauty of the vocation to marriage is to be found through and with and in its fragility, not least because weakness can reawaken trust in God, and trust in God awakens the desire for holiness.”
This is where accompaniment and relationships is so important so that the Holy Spirit can use a Christian disciple to say a prophetic thing at exactly the right moment that can cut through a lifetime of confusion. Mind you, not (necessarily) prophetic in any harsh way, but docile to what the Holy Spirit has already prepared.
Michelle, would you cite the source of the quotes from Sr. Alford, specifically what "model" to which she is referring?
For example,
“Then comes the phase that we would like to avoid: facing the brokenness and weakness of our interlocutor, since we, too, know how much we need God’s mercy,” she continued. “Yet, according to this model, it is necessary to do that, not in order to condemn, but in order to make the encounter more real and the desire for help more insistent.”
Whatever happens out of all this, it's gonna be a grand week in the Catholic news world.
This from Sr Helen was marvellous:
“The beauty of the vocation to marriage is to be found through and with and in its fragility, not least because weakness can reawaken trust in God, and trust in God awakens the desire for holiness.”
This is where accompaniment and relationships is so important so that the Holy Spirit can use a Christian disciple to say a prophetic thing at exactly the right moment that can cut through a lifetime of confusion. Mind you, not (necessarily) prophetic in any harsh way, but docile to what the Holy Spirit has already prepared.
Michelle, would you cite the source of the quotes from Sr. Alford, specifically what "model" to which she is referring?
For example,
“Then comes the phase that we would like to avoid: facing the brokenness and weakness of our interlocutor, since we, too, know how much we need God’s mercy,” she continued. “Yet, according to this model, it is necessary to do that, not in order to condemn, but in order to make the encounter more real and the desire for help more insistent.”