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"God will provide". How often has Scripture spoken words such as these! From the story of Abraham up to Jesus' Sermon on the Mount, and on to Paul's words in Second Corinthians, we hear such affirmations of confidence. God will provide, because God knows what we need, God knows how we accept each gift and how we use it, whether for God's glory or for our own aggrandizement. "God will provide." These words call us to a great dependence on God. At the same time, they call us to that trust in God which makes all our dependence on him mature and spiritual. Dependence on God could, indeed, be childish and irresponsible, if it were not grounded in a firm faith in God's providence. Confidence in God's providence does not deprive us of responsibility for our own lives and for the happiness and spiritual well-being of those around us. God's gifts are given to us that we may responsibly use them for the sake of the Kingdom, for a greater union with Jesus in His mission of saving the world. Father in Heaven, bless us all, individually and as a human race, with all the gifts that we need, so that we may live as Your fully mature and responsible children. |
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That our every activity may have its beginning and its end in Christ present in the Eucharist
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In this month, dedicated to the Sacred Heart, we are encouraged to contemplate the Heart of Jesus in the Eucharist. It will spur us to seek in that Heart the inexhaustible mystery of the priesthood of Christ and of the Church. It will enable us to taste the spiritual sweetness of charity at its very source. It will make us rediscover our baptismal promises and thus be made more aware of having to live our apostolic dimension by spreading love and participating in the mission of evangelisation. We pray the Lord of the harvest to grant the Church "shepherds after His own Heart" who will be ready to go out into the highways of the world to proclaim that He is the Way, the Truth and the Life. We pray that today's young people, docile to the voice of the Holy Spirit, will let the great expectations of the Church and of humanity resonate in the depths of their hearts and respond to Christ's invitation to consecrate, themselves enthusiastically and joyously with Him "for the life of the world". The entire devotion to the Heart of Jesus is rooted and finds its summit in participation in the Holy Mass where we fraternally assembled, listen to the Word of God and learn to offer with Christ our lives. | |
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