Laboring for the Abundant Harvest
Ah, Catholic Church, how utterly I share with you in my own way your passion for the universe. This thirst for action, this compassion that has become a passion in the hearts of so many noble women, educators, and missionaries, this need for order, meaning, purity, and response all around us, this way of intimately embracing the sinner in order to transform him, this craving for understanding and enlightenment that torments…so many students, all this is related to that hunger on the part of the Savior that he communicated to his Church: Where is my guest room, where I am to eat the Passover with my disciples? (Mk 14:14).
All that the Church does, we do with her. With her help we are enabled, within the limits of our humble powers, to take the world in our hands and offer it to God—and even to take God himself in our hands and offer him to the world.
Paul Claudel
Paul Claudel († 1955) was a poet, playwright, diplomat, and member of the French Academy.
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