Faith Formation

Just as faith is a principle of understanding, so obedience must be a prinicple of freedom.  You do not deliver yourself into the hands of authority like a man tired of using his initiative, abdicating; or like a sailor happy to find a quiet harbor at last after a stormy passage.  On the contrary, you receive from authority the "duc in altum" (put out into the deep, Lk 5:4).  You entrust yourself to it as to a ship leaving port for a glorious voyage and high adventure.                                                                                                                                                                       - Henri de Lubac