"It is a disconcerting fact that while the Lord who comes to us in Holy Communion is exactly the same person who will come to us on the day of judgment, we long for his coming in the one case and dread it in the other. We feel that we know him instinctively now, but then he will be a stranger; that Christ the lover and Christ the judge are two different people. Of course they are not; they are one and the same, and in God justice and love are one and the same thing.
The conditions we know too well today - wars, famines, ideology, betrayal of one another's blood, false teachers rising up on every side to confuse a broken-hearted world - all this will be but the beginning....Then suddenly, unexpectedly, Christ will appear, a King of glory...The suffering, the labor, the patience, that what was hidden will bear fruit, the fruit will be red on the bough....The blood spilt in the dust will blossom like a rose."
- Caryll Houselander
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