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I have been thinking about what it means to be given time. Time is a gift.
The quotation I put on this blog last night, which Benedict said at his last Angelus address refers to the fact that we must have priorities regarding time.
Here is the quotation of Benedict repeated--"Loving the church also means having the courage to make tough choices, suffering, having always before you the good of the church and not yourself."
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| New stamp-Sede Vacante |
Benedict loves the Church and only wants to serve the Church. These should be motives for all of our lives.
When I had an adult re-conversion at the age of 22, one of the gifts I was given was great love for Holy Mother Church.
As baptized Catholics, we are given this gift, but sometimes we lose it, by an over-critical spirit, or cynicism, or sin.
Benedict calls us to glorify God no matter what we do, large or small. Sometimes the small is very small.
We are only given a short space of time on earth. Our priorities must follow the knowledge that when we die, we must give an account to God, as did the men in the story of the talents, as to what we did with time and talents.
These thoughts are not about diocesan programs or self-help books. These thoughts look toward perfection, the cooperation with grace.
Your time is not your own....