![]() We have told them that unless they confessed to a priest, or had the sacrifice of the mass applied specifically to their case, or accepted Jesus in the correct denominational terms - or hit the sawdust trail, did penance, cried their eyes out, or straightened up and flew right - the seed, who is the Word present everywhere in all his forgiving power, might just as well not really have been sown. Think of some of the things we have said to people. ![]() Something special to activate it, his forgiveness would remain only virtually, not actually, theirs. "Sure," we have said, "the Lamb of God has taken away all the sins of the world." But then we have proceeded to give the impression that unless people did The history of Christian thought is riddled with virtualism. Perversely, though, we seem to prefer that interpretation. ![]() ![]() “But what needs to be emphasized here is that the differences can never be interpreted as meaning that the operative power of the seed - or the operative power of the Word - is in any way dependent on circumstantial cooperation. ![]()
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