Queen of Peace Catholic Church

"LISTENING PRAYER" IS THE FOUNDATION OF A FRUITFUL QUEEN OF PEACE PARISH "Every Christian plan of the future will, and must, be valueless if it does not remain Christian, i.e., orientated toward Christ. For Christ is not a 'program' that can be surveyed or drawn off and bottled and simply taken with one on a 'future operation.' Only in the openness of contemplation and listening prayer is there revealed to us ever anew what Christ, in whom we have our origin, means and wants. Every action that is not rooted in contemplation is doomed to sterility from the start." By Hans Urs von Balthasar in "The Moment of Christian Witness" (Newman Press: New York, 1968), 71