René Laurentin
René Laurentin (1917 -2017) was a French priest, theologian, Roman Catholic Mariologist, and writer.
Quotes
[edit]- Thérèse of Lisieux was one of the sources of inspiration for the philosopher Henri Bergson during the final stage of his search, in which he found God thanks to the testimony of mystics.
- Teresa di Lisieux. Vita e attualità, translated into Italian by L. Bianchi, Queriniana, 1997
La Madonna
[edit]- René Laurentin, La Madonna : questioni di teologia, traduzione di Margherita Ricatti di Ceva, Morcellania, 1964.
- Christ does not even grant her [to Mary] the satisfactions of motherhood according to the flesh, however legitimate they may be.
- Mary shared the obscure condition of faith that is that of the other redeemed.
- It cannot be said that Mary's Redemption is of a different kind from ours, because it is the same redemption as Christ's, but in its supreme fulfillment and with its own modes of anticipation and perfection.
- If she is our queen, we too will reign with Christ; Mary is not superior to us except in being closer to us.
Lourdes
[edit]- René Laurentin, Lourdes. Cronaca di un mistero, traduzione di Rino Camilleri, Mondadori, 1996
- Through the apparitions at Lourdes, Our Lady wanted to restore in us a love for the poor and for poverty, a love that is ingenious and liberating.
- Conversion: this is the word that most specifically expresses the meaning of pilgrimage.
- The events at Lourdes present an order, a harmony that becomes increasingly apparent as one delves deeper.
- Mass and the Body of Christ have become the very center of pilgrimage to Lourdes.
- The mid-19th century saw the triumph of the reign of money over the medieval reign of honor and traditions.
- The prayer of Bernadette is contagious.
- The Virgin [Mary] is the one in whom no sin has diminished love.
- Lourdes does not disappoint, even though miracles remain the exception there.
- We sinners oscillate dangerously between harshness and complicity towards others.
- There is no true love for the sinner without hatred for his sin.
- One cannot understand the sinner through sin, because sin is not a positive technique: in its essence it is deprivation, absence, nothingness; it is sin to the exact extent that it decapitates the good of the act performed. It is therefore not a factor of understanding but of obscurity.
- If heaven chooses what does not exist according to the world, it is not for the gratuitous pleasure of mocking the world.
- One is capable of mercy to the extent that one knows one is the object of mercy.
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