Catholic Bishops’ Conference: Recover The “Lost Mysticism”

New Delhi (AsiaNews) – Next month, a general meeting of the Catholic Bishops’ Conference of India will be held on the topic of ‘Year for Priests’, which Pope Benedict XVI proclaimed last June in order to renew the activity and contemplation by Catholic priests.

In order to cope with “the painful realities of the day,” we must recover the “lost mysticism,” he said. “If a realist theologian like Karl Rahner could say that the Christian of tomorrow would need to be a mystic or else cease to be even a believer, we can see how much more important it is for a priest to be a ‘mystic’. Rahner’s statement has proved to be prophetic in this respect. We have witnessed the loss of faith amidst large sections of Christian believers in different parts of the world. Many who wanted to set the world right without the help of their Christian faith have found themselves unequipped for the mighty endeavour.”

HT: Christian Research Network