The Sorrow of Christ Joins Our Sorrow
Karl Rahner on how Jesus' sufferings make the way of repentance possible
Two selections from Rahner for the beginning of the Lenten fast. The first is from his 1967 Ash Wednesday sermon, preached in Munich:
Is it then still necessary that we should gather here to be signed with a cross of ashes and to be told: Remember, man, that you are dust and will return to dust? Is it still necessary to commemorate the dea…
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