Topic: Sacrifice

True worship, which honours and pleases God, is a seamless combination of ritual praise and a life lived in doing good for others.

Salvation belongs to Christ alone, but those who have fought and died for other forms of salvation are among those with whom Christ identifies himself; fellow victims of the atrocity from which Christ is saving us.

The once and for all sacrifice of Christ and our living sacrifice of ourselves are becoming one sacrifice as we and Christ become one.

Jesus is the model for rightly honouring the victims by exposing and resisting the systems that sacrificed them.

Jesus invites us to find our communion in the violence done to him instead of in doing violence to others.

The challenge of relinquishing selfish desire is a crucial key to a deeper journey into the life of Christ.

Self sacrifice and asceticism are not incompatible with the call to care for oneself and live life to the full.

The God who stopped at nothing to stand in solidarity with us, looks for those who will give everything to work in solidarity with God.