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Keep Christ in Christmas

Friends

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Passion

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Life is an exam

Acceptance

Daily prayer

A humble heart

Everything is grace

Sometimes, as we contemplate our path, we might wonder if life isn’t just as random as a shuffled pack of cards. But our faith tells us that there is more to it than that. Jesus, our Redeemer, is walking the path with us. He never promised a clear, unobstructed road, but he did promise to be with us, even to the end of the earth (Matthew 28:20).

From "The Word Among Us", November 2, 2015

Saints is our title

God can redeem every situation

"We might not always get it right either. Even when we think we are following God’s plan—as the Jewish leaders no doubt thought—we make mistakes. But the good news is that whether we meant to turn away from God or not, he has a way of using even our mistakes and failings for good. So when we slip up, we shouldn’t think that all is lost. God can redeem every situation, as well as every person!

What a comforting thought to take with us when we get caught up worrying about past missteps! And let it be a reminder to help us look at everyone as God does: not perfect, but still a part of his plan, still having the potential to do great things for him. His mercy should be both an encouragement and an example for us!"

From "The Word Among Us", October 31, 2015

The true score card

"My forty-year goal ... was to be a part of a movement, maybe even a revolution, where we start to have a score card other than just making money. We start to think about what's the purpose of our lives and how we're gonna fulfil that at work, and actually we measure ourselves based on the impact we have on others." 

(Dan Price, CEO of Gravity Payments)

The Church's mission

To carry out her mission in fidelity to her Master as a voice crying out in the desert, in defending faithful love and encouraging the many families which live married life as an experience which reveals of God’s love; in defending the sacredness of life, of every life; in defending the unity and indissolubility of the conjugal bond as a sign of God’s grace and of the human person’s ability to love seriously.

The Church is called to carry out her mission in truth, which is not changed by passing fads or popular opinions. The truth which protects individuals and humanity as a whole from the temptation of self-centredness and from turning fruitful love into sterile selfishness, faithful union into temporary bonds. "Without truth, charity degenerates into sentimentality. Love becomes an empty shell, to be filled in an arbitrary way. In a culture without truth, this is the fatal risk facing love” (Benedict XVI, Caritas in Veritate, 3).

And the Church is called to carry out her mission in charity, not pointing a finger in judgment of others, but – faithful to her nature as a mother – conscious of her duty to seek out and care for hurting couples with the balm of acceptance and mercy; to be a "field hospital” with doors wide open to whoever knocks in search of help and support; even more, to reach out to others with true love, to walk with our fellow men and women who suffer, to include them and guide them to the wellspring of salvation.

A Church which teaches and defends fundamental values, while not forgetting that "the Sabbath was made for man, not man for the Sabbath” (Mk 2:27); and that Jesus also said: "Those who are well have no need of a physician, but those who are sick; I came not to call the righteous, but sinners” (Mk 2:17). A Church which teaches authentic love, which is capable of taking loneliness away, without neglecting her mission to be a good Samaritan to wounded humanity.

I remember when Saint John Paul II said: "Error and evil must always be condemned and opposed; but the man who falls or who errs must be understood and loved… we must love our time and help the man of our time” (John Paul II, Address to the Members of Italian Catholic Action, 30 December 1978). The Church must search out these persons, welcome and accompany them, for a Church with closed doors betrays herself and her mission, and, instead of being a bridge, becomes a roadblock: "For he who sanctifies and those who are sanctified have all one origin. That is why he is not ashamed to call them brethren” (Heb 2:11).

(Pope Francis, excerpt from his homily on the opening of the Synod on the Family, 

4 October 2015)

Be soft

Friendship

Three gates

Beautiful

Patience

To be

Late have I loved you

“Late have I loved you, beauty so old and so new: late have I loved you. And see, you were within and I was in the external world and sought you there, and in my unlovely state I plunged into those lovely created things which you made. You were with me, and I was not with you. The lovely things kept me far from you, though if they did not have their existence in you, they had no existence at all. You called and cried out loud and shattered my deafness. You were radiant and resplendent, you put to flight my blindness. You were fragrant, and I drew in my breath and now pant after you. I tasted you, and I feel but hunger and thirst for you. You touched me, and I am set on fire to attain the peace which is yours.”

St. Augustine of Hippo

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