The Christian life entails a struggle.   Growing in virtue and overcoming vice requires serious effort.  This struggle for holiness, however, may seem overwhelming to the weak and  self-empowering to the proud.   Realizing that God's aid is essential for all spiritual growth helps to overcome these two mistakes.   Our spiritual combat must be carried out bravely and freely but also with full confidence in God.   

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Jesus's love is a burning, fervent love.   God himself is described as a 'burning fire' in the Letter to the Hebrews.  As disciples, we too ought to be men and women who are "on fire": apostolic, energetic, engaged, and up for sacrifices.   This entails overcoming lukewarmness, a spiritual illness that makes us allergic to Christian fervor and zeal.

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Jesus' apparent failure on the Cross is in reality a great victory.  His suffering was necessary for his glorification and for our salvation.  As Christians, our suffering is similarly necessary.  It is a means of purification, sanctification, and co-redemption.   Living through trials lovingly and prayerfully can teach us tremendous lessons about God and ourselves.  Like Christ, the trusting acceptance of our crosses becomes a great victory over sin and selfishness. 

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Our Faith gives us a living relationship with Jesus Christ and his Father God.  We are truly children of God in Christ.  This realization should fill us with confidence and trust.  God, who is all powerful and all knowing, is our loving Father.  He loves us with the same love with which he loves his divine Son. 

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The Bible often encourages us to a silent, receptive stance before God's reality and goodness.  This kind of prayer takes recollection or composure of heart, which in turn requires some trust in God.  Our distaste for quiet prayer can be rooted in an unwillingness to cede control or a fear of the changes it might provoke in us.  Jesus's advice to the busy Martha is pertinent for all times: "Mary has chosen the better part."  Although our lives are rightly busy,  we should also play the role of Mary--quietly listening to Jesus--and we can do this by learning how to pray in silence. 

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The Assumption and the Coronation of Our Lady give us a glimpse of her heavenly glory.  Mary's holiness and glorification are a reflection of the glory and splendor of God.  By contemplating her eternal radiance, we are bolstered with joyful hope and encouraged to "shine like stars" in the midst of the world.  

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The virtue of temperance or moderation is essential to loving God.  To love God above all things, our desires and enjoyment of everything else need to be under control.  Temperance brings order and health to the soul, freeing it to give God and others more importance.  Performing small acts of self denial, thereby restraining our thirst for pleasure, gives us a chance to find our joy and happiness in God himself. 

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The Gospels reveal to us the richness of Jesus's humanity.  Jesus is interested in all sorts of people and all kinds of activities.  He deals with people personally, respectfully and with tenderness.  His human experience is fraught with all that we ourselves experience in life: fatigue and frustration, sadness and joy, friendship and loneliness, anger and, in his own way, even sin.  Getting to know Jesus's humanity makes it easier for us to talk with him in prayer.  Knowing that he lived a human life like ours assures us that he "gets us", that he understands what we are going through in our lives.  

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Jesus takes five loaves and two fish from a boy and multiplies them to feed a crowd of thousands.  When we trust him, Jesus takes our good will and our meager personal resources and similarly multiplies them to help us and others.  Fortunately, faith is something we can grow in by choosing to do so.  It is a free human act.  By admitting our limitations and weakness and then confidently trying our best to do his will, Jesus makes up the difference between our insufficiency and the great things he wants us to do.   

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Our Lord Jesus calls Christians the "salt of the earth" and "the light of the world."  The presence of believing Christians is fundamental for the health and salvation of humanity.  Realizing the gravity and urgency of our mission, we should put aside all division and distractions and commit ourselves to living our Catholic faith.  This demands daily trust in God, daily repentance from sin and daily conversion towards true charity. 

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