Happenings (page 27)

Wealth is not what we own. Wealth is what owns us.

It is when people are most broken that we, the Church, need to be most welcoming.  

What Jesus is calling us to do is to root out sin in our lives at its very core. He is calling us to more than a recitation of a grocery list of sins in a confessional. He is calling us to a deep introspection of why we do the things we do.

I don’t know who “the least one” is for you. I just need to know who it is for me. This Gospel calls us all to take a hard look at ourselves.

Look into the heart of the cross you bear and see the love at its core. See the abundance, not the lack. See the blessing, not the pain. Immerse yourself in love, and the cross loses its power.

Through the Gospels, Jesus planted some amazingly wonderful tapes within our hearts. Regretfully, both life and the Evil One has sown some very negative ones among the positive ones. We choose what guides our life.

We are not victims. Every day, we choose again what we allow within us.