Reaching the State of Grace:

In order to be raised up, one must be lowered, says the Gospel. In order to be caught up in loving grace we must hide in the crevice of Christ, our rock.

Receptivity – Faith:

In today’s Gospel Jesus upholds a child as the model of receptivity to His Word and Truth. How receptive and in tuned are we to God’s Truth in our daily living? Are we too occupied with our daily secular concerns and challenges that we have “forgotten” God?

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Knowledge gives more power in the exercise of good or evil, but alone it is an indifferent weapon, lacking guidance.

- Saint John Bosco (1815-1888)

Christ’s love and our faith in that love should pervade everything we do—work, study, play.

- Saint John Bosco (1815-1888)

Every education teaches a philosophy; if not by dogma then by suggestion, by implication, by atmosphere. Every part of that education has a connection with every other part. If it does not all combine to convey some general view of life, it is not education at all.

- (G.K. Chesterton, The Common Man)