Saturday, July 9, 2011

"But breathing is by rote, too, and no less vital for that."

"A couple of extra prayers.  If we knew less, we would call it formalism, religion by rote.  But breathing is by rote, too, and no less vital for that."

George William Rutler, Saint John Vianney:  the Curé d'Ars today (San Francisco, CA:  Ignatius Press, 1988), 55.  This goes on for another page.

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