Yearly reminder: No one has ever become their ideal self. After all those resolutions and elimination diets and strivings. It’s always a moving target.Your ideal self doesn’t exist. YOU do. Your actual, lumpy, shimmering, inconsistent self is the one that is loved and needed here
Instead of complaining in these difficult times about what the pandemic prevents us from doing, let us do something for someone who has less: not the umpteenth gift for ourselves and our friends, but for a person in need whom no-one thinks of! #Angelus
In my sermon today I quoted Will Willimon. Willimon was asked to summarize the gospel is 7 words or less. His response:
“God refuses to be God without us.”
Amen.
#Advent#GodWithUs
All of us are able to give without expecting anything in return, to do good to others without demanding that they treat us well in return. As Jesus told his disciples: “Without cost you have received, without cost you are to give” (Mt 10:8). #FratelliTutti
We need to look at our cities with a contemplative gaze, a gaze of faith which sees God dwelling in homes, on the streets and squares. This presence must be found, discovered. God does not hide himself from those who seek him with a sincere heart. #WorldCitiesDay
During the Civil War, Abraham Lincoln paid $1,220 per year in income taxes (on a $25,000 salary). Under the Revenue Act of 1862, he was exempt from paying the income tax, but he felt it was his moral obligation to contribute.
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