By the virtue of loving someone, you incur a responsibility: to give them the best of yourself and summon forth the best within them. Make their becoming your concern. Strengthen them, and help them transcend what they are, for in their elevation, you too ...
I'd say, one of the greatest proofs of the existence of God for me is the fact that there are no grey areas, or better put, middle ground, when it comes to things pertaining to Christ. It's either it/they are for Him or against Him.
Man I've listened to several of Blessed Fulton Sheen's sermons and it still didn't prepare me for how wholesome his writing is🥹
How wonderful is it that we get to experience Christ through the written words of men?
Families participate in the Church’s mission in the ordinary fabric of their lives, through love and fidelity, care and forgiveness, the education of children, their efforts in transmitting faith, attention to the elderly and the vulnerable, and the many ways in which they serve their communities and society. In all these ways, families bear witness to the Gospel and contribute to the life and mission of the Church.
I will not tell anyone to invite me to their company’s EOY party. It is left to you to make that choice. Go and ask the companies that invited me last year, they are performing better now.
The first mission of the Church is to help people be attentive to the profound questions of life: those concerning our origin and our destiny, as well as those concerning the meaning of love and suffering. The logic of profit at all costs and the manipulation of information risk exerting undue pressure on people to conform to a lifestyle centred on the consumption of material goods, but our hearts are made to look upwards. #GeneralAudience