June 16, 2011 Thursday: 11th Week of Ordinary Time (A)
“In praying, do not babble like the pagans, who think that they will be heard because of their many words. Do not be like them. Your Father knows what you need before you ask him." (Mt 6:7-8)
Because God created us in the image and likeness of God, however, he created us for relationship. We were created to have and to maintain a relationship with God, with others, and with the whole of creation.
The Church is the "hospital" where we can rediscover the essential communion that our first parents lost, for the center of the Christian community is God. Health flourishes when we become truly what God has meant the human person to be.
We will be given the power to get up and walk out of a crippled past into a life of new meaning, joined to others in community, in peace with God, with ourselves, and with all of creation.
The little miracles that God brings about in our life include such basic things as the strength to get out of bed in the morning.
(from Surviving Depression: A Catholic Approach by Sr. Kathryn J. Hermes, FSP)
The Church is the "hospital" where we can rediscover the essential communion that our first parents lost, for the center of the Christian community is God. Health flourishes when we become truly what God has meant the human person to be.
We will be given the power to get up and walk out of a crippled past into a life of new meaning, joined to others in community, in peace with God, with ourselves, and with all of creation.
The little miracles that God brings about in our life include such basic things as the strength to get out of bed in the morning.
(from Surviving Depression: A Catholic Approach by Sr. Kathryn J. Hermes, FSP)
