Thursday, April 28, 2011

Quote du Jour (Faith Department)

I've been pondering this quote from an editorial in America magazine back in March. The commentary was about the public act of contrition at St. Mary's Pro-Cathedral in Dublin earlier this year:

In Catholic life symbols matter; they point to something greater than what can be grasped by the sense alone. Ashes are more than burnt matter; water is more than a liquid; a flame is more than fire. So as the church confronts the legacy of sexual abuse, symbolic gestures are needed. They can speak to the Catholic imagination as much as words do.