A Spirituality of Communion

Posted by on Feb 14, 2011 in Meditations | 0 comments To make the Church the home and the school of communion: that is the great challenge facing us in the millennium which is now beginning, if we wish to be faithful to God’s plan and respond to the world’s deepest yearnings. But what does this mean in practice? Here too, our thoughts could run immediately to the action to be undertaken, but that would not be the right impulse to follow....
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In the Service of God

Posted by on Feb 14, 2011 in Meditations | 0 comments In God’s house we must try to accept any job: Cook or kitchen boy, waiter, stable boy, baker. If it pleases the king to call us into his private council, then we must go there, but without being too excited, for we know that our reward depends not on the job itself but on the faithfulness with which we serve him. - John Paul I (Illustrissimi)
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Vessels for Lofty Use

Posted by on Feb 14, 2011 in Meditations | 0 comments Be eager to present yourself as acceptable to God, a workman who causes no disgrace, imparting the word of truth without deviation. Avoid profane, idle talk, for such people will become more and more godless, and their teaching will spread like gangrene. Among them are Hymenaeus and Philetus, who have deviated from the truth by saying that (the) resurrection has already taken place and are...
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