The Gospel new each day -  it is in history but not controlled by it.  It is there that Christ waits to speak with you.
"We can never know in advance how the eternal will manifest itself in temporal form, what aspects will predominate this time, what familiar aspects will be deepened, what new, unsuspected ones will be brought to light, what dimensions will be brilliantly lit, what others will be left in semidarkness.”  (from Prayer, by Hans Urs von Balthasar)


Discipleship:
“It is therefore a race that is run within the limits set by Christ himself and judged according to the extreme standards of his struggle against the sin of the world. The Christian lives in a sphere that signifies absolute love … If one tries to imagine something greater, to sail for new horizons, he falls into a void that eventually destroys the man who was created fro the sake of something better than the world we know.”  (from The Moment of Christian Witness, by Hans Urs von Balthasar)