God Walking With Us:
Whatever the outcome of our struggles, at the heart of our faith lies the challenging but inspiring claim that although God has not chosen to spare us the suffering that comes our way, God has chosen to walk through our suffering with us and to piece us back together and breathe new life into us.
'I will follow You' - Faith:
In today's Gospel, the Scribes wanted to 'follow Jesus,' but their commitment was not deep. Thus, Jesus cautioned them about the need for sacrifices, selflessness and single- mindedness if they want to follow Him. Are we willing to live out such demands for Jesus?
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Prayer reveals to souls the vanity of earthly goods and pleasures. It fills them with light, strength, and consolation, and gives them a foretaste of the calm bliss of our heavenly home.
- Saint Rose of Viterbo (1234-1252)
We ... speak a message of wisdom among the mature, but not the wisdom of this age or of the rulers of this age, who are coming to nothing. No, we speak of God's secret wisdom, a wisdom that has been hidden and that God destined for our glory before time began.
- St. Paul, 1 Corinthians 2:6-7
Man is here for a clear and evident purpose, and it is his first duty to know it. There are some who are honest at first, but who, after a faint resistance, sink down on a lower range of feelings, and yield themselves up to an ignoble life. But there is a class of souls who cannot set aside their higher aspirations if they would; nor would they set them aside if they had the power. They believe that the highest prerogative of man's reason is to know what his destiny is, and that the holiest employment of the energies of his will is to be directed to the realization of the great gift of his existence.
- Father Isaac Hecker, founder of the Missionary Society of St. Paul the Apostle (1819 - 1888)
Whatever the outcome of our struggles, at the heart of our faith lies the challenging but inspiring claim that although God has not chosen to spare us the suffering that comes our way, God has chosen to walk through our suffering with us and to piece us back together and breathe new life into us.
'I will follow You' - Faith:
In today's Gospel, the Scribes wanted to 'follow Jesus,' but their commitment was not deep. Thus, Jesus cautioned them about the need for sacrifices, selflessness and single- mindedness if they want to follow Him. Are we willing to live out such demands for Jesus?
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Prayer reveals to souls the vanity of earthly goods and pleasures. It fills them with light, strength, and consolation, and gives them a foretaste of the calm bliss of our heavenly home.
- Saint Rose of Viterbo (1234-1252)
We ... speak a message of wisdom among the mature, but not the wisdom of this age or of the rulers of this age, who are coming to nothing. No, we speak of God's secret wisdom, a wisdom that has been hidden and that God destined for our glory before time began.
- St. Paul, 1 Corinthians 2:6-7
Man is here for a clear and evident purpose, and it is his first duty to know it. There are some who are honest at first, but who, after a faint resistance, sink down on a lower range of feelings, and yield themselves up to an ignoble life. But there is a class of souls who cannot set aside their higher aspirations if they would; nor would they set them aside if they had the power. They believe that the highest prerogative of man's reason is to know what his destiny is, and that the holiest employment of the energies of his will is to be directed to the realization of the great gift of his existence.
- Father Isaac Hecker, founder of the Missionary Society of St. Paul the Apostle (1819 - 1888)
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