The joy we experience on Earth is called “consolation,” because happiness here is always mixed with pain. We call the Holy Spirit the “Consoler,” because He is the one who gives souls in exile a happiness which can be experienced simultaneously with grief....
Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger Address to Catechists and Religion Teachers Jubilee of Catechists December 12, 2000 (Feast of Our Lady of Guadalupe) Human life cannot be realized by itself. Our life is an open question, an incomplete project, still to be brought to fruition...
