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'The Catholic rests not on his own frailty, but on the voice of millions uttering united testimony. He stands with them on the rock of ages, whose foundation is Christ's promise. He hears the winds of persecution howl, and is awakened to vigilance, and wraps his garment of Christianity closer about him. He looks out upon the waters of contradiction, how their waves rise and fall and bellow, crossing in strife, and mingle, and have each their time. He sees each billow, swollen and crested with pride, as it comes and is dashed and broken against the rock, and retires and disappears.' (Bishop W. Bernard Ullathorne).
The Miracle of the Church: 'I am the very Vine of God, brought out of Egypt long ago; my seed fell in a ball of fire with the sound of wind; and from that moment I have lived indeed. I thrust my white shoots in the darkness of the catacombs, and forced my way through the cracks of Caesar's falling palaces; my early grapes were trodden under foot, rent by the wild boar in the amphitheatre, spoilt, by little foxes crushed in the wine-press of rack and prison; I am blown upon by every wind that blows, by calumny and criticism from the north, by passion and fury in the south and west. I am pruned year by year with sharp knives forged in death and hell, yet grasped by the hand of the Father who is my husbandman. And yet I live, and shall live, till my Beloved come down to taste the fruits of the garden.' (Msgr. Robert Hugh Benson).
Quotes taken from the book The Consolations of Catholicism (1955).
Courage! Jesus Christ is the Lord of History and the world was created for the sake of the Church, in order to bring Christ's salvation to men (CCC 668/760).
