The Body of Christ – the Church in the Flesh and the Spirit

Dynamic and erratic,

spontaneous and radical,

audacious and immature,

committed if not altogether coherent,

ecumenically open and often experimental,

visible here and there,

now and then,

but unsettled institutionally.

Almost monastic in nature

but most of all….

enacting a fearful hope

for human life in society.

William Stringfellow, Quoted in Celtic Daily Prayer, page 634