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Fr. James Doran
Peter Maurin
The first idea which must be accepted is this notion of the tension that a Catholic has to live in at all times. When you read the history of the Church, there’s a continual conflict between what we call the Church and State, or the temporal order and the things of God. There will always be this tension. It’s not because of either the Church or the State; it’s because of the reality of the Redemption as such. By the fact of grace having entered the world, we have been transformed interiorly and elevated to a divine level here and now. All the same, we live in time. We await the Day of Judgment in which that order of grace will be fulfilled and we will come to its perfection.
Thus it is that in some places, St. Paul, especially in writing to the Ephesians, speaks of the fact that God has raised us up with His Son and placed us in heavenly places with Him. This is a reality in which there’s a stability and a point of perfection which already exists. Our Divine Lord sits at the right side of the Father. By grace, we are incorporated into that same reality.
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