Weekly Pause & Ponder
Love, overflowing with small gestures of mutual care, is also civic and political, and it makes itself felt in every action that seeks to build a better world. Love for society and commitment to the common good are outstanding expressions of a charity which affects not only relationships between individuals, but also “macro-relationships, social, economic and political ones.” …social love is the key to authentic development.
- Laudato Si’: Encyclical Letter of The Holy Father Francis
Love is our true destiny
Weekly Pause & Ponder
Lent is about
Becoming, doing, and changing,
whatever it is that is blocking
the fullness of life in us right now.
Weekly Pause & Ponder
The world is in the state it’s in because there are things in me that need changing. When I begin to take responsibility for the character of the little world in which I live, the world will become a holier place to be for everyone.
Living Well, by Joan Chittister OSB