
Faith and Family for October 3: Marriage and Children
This week’s first reading and Gospel speak to the issues of marriage and children.
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This week’s first reading and Gospel speak to the issues of marriage and children.

Jesus wants marriage, the relationship of man and woman, to be part of his proclamation of the Kingdom. It is in that most human of institutions–in the nitty-gritty of daily life–that God is at work.

Michael, Gabriel, and Raphael have had special missions in carrying out the will of God among his human creatures. The liturgical celebration of these archangels is intended to remind us that God is still concerned with us today.

We begin to face what we might prefer to overlook, begin to see what is going on in this world of ours.

God’s love for we humans is still universal today–still catholic. All are invited to respond to it, all invited to be blessed by it.

Since every thing, every person, every situation comes from the God who speaks, the whole world is Word by which we can live.

No matter how much we practice patience, no matter how much we pray, sometimes the morning arrives when we must take the action we’ve been contemplating—and it can be scary.

We enjoy the fulfillment of the messianic age in Christ and his people. We are a people filled with the energy and youth of the risen Christ. We dwell in a new Jerusalem. We offer God our thanks.

When the stress level and busyness in my life are high, I don’t always take time to thank God for the daily gifts he gives me.

There surely is a world of difference between the prayer of action and that of silence or word.