THE DANGERS OF LITURGICAL ACCESSIBILITY

'Accessibility is often prized above all else in the contemporary Church, but we might question whether even those who are unfamiliar with the Church but come to it for blessing, dedication and consolation really want it to proceed with language that aspires to the semantic and lexicographical smoothness of an episode of a soap opera.'

Andrew Davison, Blessing, p.181.

ENVY IS BEST TREATED BY GRACE

'The best way to train our eyes to see without envy is to take the grace of God as our interpretative key in all that we see or consider: others' existence is a gift, as is mine; their life and all that is needed for life is a gift, and so is mine - and their life and their flourishing is a gift also to me.'

Andrew Davison, Blessing, p.76.

THE PERFECT HUMANITY OF JESUS

'When Pilate displayed Christ to the people with the words 'Here is the man!' (John 19:4 - 'Behold the man' in the AV), he did not appreciate how profoundly true his words were: there indeed, before them, was the full, perfect, axiomatic, emblematic human being, the one who teaches us what it means to be human.'

Andrew Davison, Blessing, p.50. 

WHAT BLESSING MEANS

'Blessing concerns life and abundance of life, and the affirmation or even intensification of the proper goodness of a thing, situation or person.'

Andrew Davison, Blessing, p.50.

WE BLESS WHAT IS GOOD

'...blessing is intrinsically orientated to the recognition of goodness. We have a sense of what can not be blessed because blessing is about goodness.'

Andrew Davison, Blessing, p.20.