Charisms are not distributed at random but are dispensed by God to supply what is needful and lacking in his Church at each historical moment. If the… - Hans Urs von Balthasar

In his Gospel, St. John, through long and deep contemplation, acknowledges Jesus to be the Logos of God. In his epistles he points entirely away from himself toward Christ. Finally, in the Apocalypse, in the vision of the Lamb of God, Old and New Testaments are united, and the whole drama of salvation is summed up.

The Mystical Body of Christ does not rest on abstract principles but on concrete persons who have missions, or on missions which are personal.

Christ's Passion, viewed from within, is of a diversity that the biblical texts and images leave hidden; but numerous mystics through the centuries have been allowed to experience a great deal of it in ever-varying aspects—if only by drops, as it were, compared with the Son of God.