Quote for the day

“It is heartbreaking to see the way professed Christians today are being swept into the swirling rapids of worldliness. Believers today do not distinguish themselves by ‘the victory which overcomes the world.’ Worldly pleasures, worldly fashions, worldly lusts and ambitions are only too apparent today in the life of the Church and the manner and outlook of Christians. Is there no way out of what the Germans call the ‘Weltgeist?’ We live in the world as a fish in water—must the water soak in, or is there hope that the Saviour’s high-priestly prayer: ‘they are not of the world, even as I am not of the world…Holy Father, keep through thine own name those whom thou hast given me’—be answered? Must ‘the prince of this world,’ who according to Jesus our Lord is the devil, hold sway over Christians in spite of God, the Church, the Cross and the Empty Tomb?” — F.J. Huegel