remaking the world

 

the baby quilt

"The church is the 'sheltering womb and matrix of the new world' that remakes the world. The world, in a sense, was made for the church, because the church is the final community, that site of supernatural social life for which all were made and apart from which human nature will not be satisfied. The world belongs to her, and she remakes the human race. All other communities must find themselves in her - if they are to last. This will mean that the church will cause some unrest in the world. She will frustrate the ambitions of any and all who seek to make their fleshly indentities, temporal projects, and earthly communities ultimate." 

                                                            -  James R. Wood, from Plough magazine*

*the article was about Henri de Lubac