Why Patience is Essential in Ministry
Patience in the Christian sense includes receptivity to God’s will and acceptance of God’s timing. In today’s microwave culture, we have almost entirely lost this virtue. The other day I learned that when designing a website we need to plan on people’s attention span being 10-20 seconds long. If we haven’t caught people’s attention by then, they’re gone and off to the next thing. How true! And yet how sad that the same impatience spreads to our faith life and ministry.
How to Fight your Giants
Today in the first reading we heard the familiar story of David defeating the giant Goliath. As a child I dreamed of being as courageous as he was; standing up against someone bigger and more powerful. It is easy to relate to that feeling as a child. However we forget the power that this story has for us as adults as well. We too can learn to fight our giants by following David’s example.
My Soul Clings Fast to You by Sr. Christina Marie, O.Cist
The mysterious dance between the workings of divine grace and human freedom intrigues me. God showers us with so many gifts: gratuitously creating us, giving the Son as our Redeemer, sending the Spirit as our Sanctifier…