Folia Theologica 20. (2009)
Barbour Hugh: The Cosmology of Catholic Worship: Pre-Socratic Sacraments? A Consideration by a disciple of St. Thomas Qauinas
30 BARBOUR, Hugh tion, which is the unbloody container of the bloody contents which have infinite power. The Church will be able to slake her thirst at the Sacrifice of the Mass. I am alone, I say the Holy Mass, good enough! There is an ocean of redemptive graces, and the Church can draw in this grace according to the intensity of her fervor. And in the Church, throughout history there are different rhythms, there are times when she grows more; and there are periods when there are many apostasies, and then times of great holiness. So, if one were to look at the Church from on high, as do the saints and angels, one would see the flame of the Church rising and falling, but which is never extinguished. The Church draws in the infinite power of the one Sacrifice according to the proportion of her devotion, which can, as I already said, oscillate at certain moments. Jesus said: "YJhen the Son of Man comes again, will He find any faith?" (Lk 18:8). There will be many apostasies, but there will also be superabundant outpourings of love, which will allow the Church to find once again that which she had at the time of the first persecutions."'9 19 Conférences Données par le Cardinal Journet à Argentan - Jouques et Fribourg en 1974 sur Le Mystère de L'Eucharistie. Foundation du Cardinal Journet, Fribourg in Switzerland.
