Sons and Daughters of God:

You are of the royal family of the Messiah. That is the truth about who you are and why God, at every moment of every hour of every day and night, works for your salvation, works that you might inherit the kingdom forever. Don’t lose sight of your dignity. Don’t let the world nibble away at it or skew it or dilute it. Take hold of your dignity as a son or daughter of God, with both hands!

Emotions - Faith:

In today's Gospel the Pharisees were upset at Jesus for being with sinners. If our faith is deeply rooted in Jesus, we would be able to go beyond our prejudices, hurts, jealousies, anger and the like to reach out to those who need Christ most. Are we consumed by our emotions?

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At every step I feel the power of God. Wherever I am, whatever happens to me, I am in the hands of Divine Providence which watches over nations and over every individual!

- Blessed Joseph Kowalski (1911-1942)

But thanks be to God, who always leads us as captives in Christ's triumphal procession and uses us to spread the aroma of the knowledge of him everywhere. For we are to God the pleasing aroma of Christ among those who are being saved and those who are perishing.

- St. Paul, 2 Corinthians 2:14-15

[T]here is no question more worthy to engage the attention of those who have at heart the spread of the Christ's kingdom upon earth, than the question whether the Catholic Church will succeed in Christianizing the American nation.... [F]or the people of the United States are young, free, energetic and filled with the idea of great enterprises; a people who, of all others, if once Catholic, can give a new, noble, glorious realization to Christianity.

- Father Isaac Hecker, founder of the Missionary Society of St. Paul the Apostle (1819 - 1888)