we must find him

If Christ is to be for us a savior,
we must find him here, now, and where we are,
in this age of ours;
otherwise, he is no Christ,
no Savior,
no Immanuel, no “God with us.”

– (soon to be Servant of God) Fr. Isaac Thomas Hecker, founder of the Paulist Fathers

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