November 7
Companions of the Way (Morning)As dying, and behold we live.
JUST as our Lord Himself passed into glory through the gate of death, so we must lose all to gain all. Complete self-surrender, both once for all and daily in detail, is the condition of salvation. Presentations of Christianity, which ignore or repudiate this law, are not only defective, but radically false. They are built on "another foundation," not on the Crucified. "Some of you they shall kill and crucify; and there shall not a hair of your head perish. In your endurance ye shall gain possession of your souls." Such is the paradox of which the Crucifixion and the Resurrection are the sacrament.
WILLIAM RALPH INGE
THE WAY OF THE CROSS