Angels Sent for Us:

Thank you, God, for your messengers that you send to us. Thank you for your angels that show us your mercy, power and judgement. Help me to remember that you are with me in many ways. Make it part of my mission today, dear Lord, to seek the angels that you have sent just for me.

“Purity in a Child” – Faith:

In today’s Gospel, Jesus holds up a child as being the “greatest in God’s Kingdom.” A child has the purity of heart and potential to grow in deep intimacy and love for God – i.e. to be what Jesus calls the “greatest.” Do we nurture our children’s faith and love for God?

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No one in the world can change Truth. What we can do and should do is to seek truth and to serve it when we have found it. The real conflict is the inner conflict. Beyond armies of occupation and the hecatombs of extermination camps, there are two irreconcilable enemies in the depth of every soul: good and evil, sin and love. And what use are the victories on the battlefield if we ourselves are defeated in our innermost personal selves?

- Saint Maximilian Kolbe (1894-1941)

Courage, my sons. Don’t you see that we are leaving on a mission? They pay our fare in the bargain. What a piece of good luck! The thing to do now is to pray well in order to win as many souls as possible. Let us, then, tell the Blessed Virgin that we are content, and that she can do with us anything she wishes.

- Saint Maximilian Kolbe (1894-1941), when first arrested