A shortage of priests abounds in the US and other countries as well. The laity are often asked to pray for more vocations. Yet we already have the vocations around us that God planned for us in this very moment of time in salvation history…
Attaining and maintaining independence requires building a foundation in the Holy Spirit of interdependence. It remains that the most any individual can do for our country and the world is to let God first transform them.
In the mass, the priest prays: “At the Saviour’s command, informed by Divine teaching, we dare to say..” How dare we say anything to our almighty, all powerful God?
For God, past, present, and future are one. Time has no restriction on Him; after all, He created it. The 19th century German Bishop Ketteler experienced this first hand in God working out his conversion.
In ancient Judaism, the Feast of Tabernacles (Sukkot) brought the presence of God into the tent of the Jewish family. Similarly, the enthronement in the home of the Sacred Heart of Jesus makes the home an extension of His tabernacle in the church…