An addendum

So I’m 3 pages into reading my book of the month, and already am buzzing.

…in today’s intellectual climate, only the masculine principle counts. And that means doing, achieving results, actively planning and producing the world oneself, refusing to wait for anything upon which one would thereby become dependent, relying rather, solely on one’s own abilities…We treat the Church almost like some technological device that we plan and make with enormous cleverness and expenditure of energy. Then we are surprised when we experience the truth of what Saint Louis-Marie Grignon de Montfort once remarked, paraphrasing the words of the prophet Haggai, when he said, ‘You do much, but nothing comes of it’! When making becomes autonomous, the things we cannot make but that are live and need time to mature can no longer survive.

Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger, ‘Mary: The Church at the Source’

This, this, this. We need to move away from planning and doing, towards praying and developing. More, anon.