From today's readings, this is an excerpt from the first letter of John:
"Beloved, if God so loved us, we also must love one another. No one has ever seen God. Yet, if we love one another, God remains in us, and his love is brought to perfection in us." St. Teresa of Avilla says that Christ has no hands but ours. So many saints whose voices from centuries before coming down to beckon us to fuller life. Saints John, Teresa, Benedict, Charles Borromeo (my patron saint for 2009), Catherine of Siena (my niece Maggie just chose Catherine for her Confirmation saint), Joan of Arc (my Confirmation saint), Mary, the mother of Jesus, Joseph, the father of Jesus, Francis of Assisi, ...the list goes on and on. Today is the feast day of Blessed Andre of Bessett... who died in the 1920's in Canada. His sainthood rested on his prayers for the sick. Although he himself was frail, the bishop elected to ordain him a priest and gave him the job of praying for people. Many people believe they were healed by his prayers.
If the only way we see God is through love where do I see God in the world? In the loving marriages I behold, in the love of parent and child, in the loving friendships I know, in all the ways that individuals extend themselves on behalf of others... love is all around... I want to receive inspiration from God's presence in all these places. To keep on keepin on.
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