Can You See It?

Today’s readings: Isaiah 2:1-5; Matthew 8:5-11

What a vision today’s readings offer us—a world in which people yearn to walk in the ways of the Lord, in which “one nation shall not raise the sword against another.” Will we ever live to see it? Only if each of us works towards it. Be a harbinger of the Kingdom today by being a peaceful presence wherever you go.

Faith:

If our faith in God is deep, our life will be full of peace and hope, even though we may have hurts, illnesses, etc. This is because we are able to experience God assuring and sustaining us. But, if our faith is weak, we will often be fearful, anxious and angry with life and people.

Always with Us:

It is no use saying that we are born two thousand years too late to give room to Christ. Nor will those who live at the end of the world have been born too late. Christ is always with us, always asking for room in our hearts. Yet now it is with the voice of our contemporaries that he speaks, with the eyes of store clerks, factory workers, and children that he gazes; with the hands of office workers, slum dwellers, and suburban housewives that he gives. It is with the feet of soldiers and tramps that he walks, and with the heart of anyone in need that he longs for shelter. And giving shelter or food to anyone who asks for it, or needs it, is giving it to Christ.

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I know nothing. I was nothing. For this reason God picked me out.

- St. Catherine Laboure (1806-1876)