By your yes today to God’s will, you make Jesus present to our world that finds it so difficult to believe that God is love.

“What some people think is freedom is nothing more than license that leads to bondage.” Victory Over the Darkness: Realize the Power of Your Identity in Christ (Anderson, Neil T.)

It isn’t difficult for God to make something good and blessed out of human errors. Such confidence gives an enormous freedom. You do the best you can and leave the rest to God. And he does manage!

Popular trust in Saint Joseph is seen in the expression “Go to Joseph ”, which evokes the famine in Egypt, when the Egyptians begged Pharaoh for bread.

As important as faithfulness is, discharging duty and maintaining a commitment do not satisfy God as much as we may think. There is a deeper interior dimension in a personal love for Our Lord that awaits our soul and that we do not realize initially.

Much of the first mistake can be traced to one basic error: we make an attribution about another person’s intentions based on the impact of their actions on us

The core of the Good News is that it is not by our own strength we act as true Christians—it has to be Jesus acting in and through us.

Jonah points toward the Passion, Death and Resurrection of Jesus.

The universal call to holiness

Jesus himself questioned out loud when talking about his second coming: “When the Son of man comes, will he find faith on earth?” (Lk 18:8).