For Easter, I received Mother Angelica's Little Book of Life Lessons and Everyday Spirituality, and so far I am very much enjoying it. It’s organized into topical chapters, and each chapter is a collection of sayings from Mother Angelica. Some are several paragraphs, but most that I have read so far have been fairly short, only a few sentences. Take this one, from the second chapter, “Your Mission, Your Purpose”:
Like the apostles, we Christians are arguing among ourselves when we should be out changing the world. We let filth proliferate and the darkness move in. Who do you think is going to change it? What are you waiting for? You are that somebody! The Lord God has no one else but you. You’d better get off your lead bottoms and go out there and change this pagan world.
And then there’s, “You have been chose twice: first to be, then to know Jesus. What are you doing with that fantastic mission? You have been created by God and know Jesus for one reason: to witness to faith, and hope, and love before an unbelieving world.”
I like this one very much: a “fantastic mission”! When was the last time you considered your life a mission? read the complete post
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