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The call to holiness guided Mother Teresa throughout her life.
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The call to holiness guided Mother Teresa throughout her life.

Mother Teresa of Calcutta strips you and me of every excuse to do nothing to help the hungry, the sick, the lonely, the unloved, the rejected, the hurting, the confused, the imprisoned.

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MT 14:13-21
When Jesus heard of the death of John the Baptist, he withdrew in a boat to a deserted place by himself. The crowds heard of this and followed him on foot from their towns. When he disembarked and saw the vast crowd, his heart was moved with pity for them, and he cured their sick.
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by Father Greg Friedman, OFM

The apostles are all human, holding their gifts from God is earthen vessels. We are not members of the apostolic college, but we are called to make our contribution to the apostles’ work.

Weighed down by life, a woman finds respite in her church.

There is nothing wrong with the seed, or the words and actions of Jesus that express his mission. If the results of the sowing are sparse, it’s because of the poor quality of the soil in which the seed is sown.

It’s probably not difficult to recall times in our lives’ journeys when we were “lost and wayward.” We really needed to be found again through God’s love and care for us.

It isn’t lack of money that usually keeps me from being as intense about the Kingdom of God as Jesus proposes. How about you? What’s distracting you from the Kingdom?

Mary Magdalene is an attractive figure. She is interested only in the Lord, and when she identifies him she doesn’t want to let him go.

Jesus is not saying that his natural family is unimportant, but that the new community of faith that he is beginning to gather around him is more important and has its own primacy.