If we want to transform life once more, and if it really ought to become Advent once more -- Advent of the homeland, and Advent of hearts, and Advent of our people, and Advent of all peoples -- then the one great question for us is whether we can come out of these shakings with the resolve: Yes, arise! It is time to awaken from sleep. It is time for an awakening to begin somewhere; and it is time that someone places things again in the order that they were given by God the Lord. Moreover, now it is time for each individual to use every opportunity to guide life into this order now -- and to do it with the same "unshakeability" with which the Lord will come.
-- Fr. Alfred Delp, SJ