Our Eucharistic Congress brings us together again this year as one family in Christ. The Eucharist makes our unity in Christ stronger, a unity which begins at our baptism. Many though we are, we partake of the one Eucharist, and we are one body in Christ, as St. Paul reminds us (1 Cor 10:17). The Eucharistic Congress is a wonderful expression of the unity of all the faithful of the Diocese of Charlotte.
In a world of Twitter and Internet memes that prize brevity, short yet poignant quotes are often passed around on social media without much thought as to where they came from. Some of my personal favorites: “An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered; an adventure is an inconvenience rightly considered.”; “To have a right to do a thing is not at all the same as to be right in doing it.”; and “Angels fly because they take themselves lightly.” What these all have in common is that they were said by the same man, G.K. Chesterton.