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Prayer for everybody is important because God wants everybody to be saved. Everybody should pray for everybody for the spread of the salvation offered for everybody.
While I am often goal-directed, I try to do something each day that neither toils nor spins, that doesn’t accomplish anything, that is simply joyful and fun. I believe God wants us to enjoy.
Being a follower of Christ is about being saved from sin. That’s what Paul’s life has been about: displaying the mercy of Christ. Paul is an example of what it means to be a beneficiary of Christ’s saving power.
We have all been called to serve Christ, and like Paul’s, our calling is not something we have deserved. It’s pure gift, and calls for our gratitude.
St. Augustine got a few things right, others spectacularly wrong. But his mother, St. Monica, never gave up on him.
There are people in the lives of all of us who do not act well toward us, who never seem willing to do us much good. Jesus says that we must love these people and do good to them.
For all the strides that have been made for women’s equality and protection, more work remains to be done. May we continue to amplify the voices and experiences of women everywhere.
In this week’s Gospel, Jesus asks the disciples who they think he is and then proceeds to predict his passion for the first time.
In today’s Second Reading we hear that violence starts from within the human heart. But from God comes the possibility of peace.
God’s redemptive action on behalf of those who would accept salvation had been in process since the beginning of the world. These actions express the thought and care that God takes for Christians’ salvation.
