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Responding to HimWhile this scenario is more dramatic than most of us would ever encounter, at some level and in some way, Jesus is calling you right now to follow Him without reservation.You may ask: What about my problems? My financial responsibilities? My family? How is it possible?This is my question to you: Do you choose your problems and challenges or do you choose Jesus? When we say “Yes” to the call of Jesus, we are like the Blessed Mother in her great assent: “Let it be done to me according to your word.” We don’t understand, but know we don’t have to understand. All we need is to be obedient.When we say “Yes” to Jesus, our world changes. We may expect our problems to disappear immediately. That usually doesn’t happen, but our attitude toward them changes. We don’t give them the power we had previously given them.https://catholicstand.com/answering-the-call/

Overheard in an Orchard, by Elizabeth Cheney (1859)Said the Robin to the Sparrow,“I should really like to knowWhy these anxious human beingsRush about and worry so!”Said the Sparrow to the Robin,“Friend, I think that it must beThat they have no heavenly FatherSuch as cares for you and me!” Behold the fowls of the air: for they sow not, neither do they reap, nor gather into barns; yet your heavenly Father feedeth them. Are ye not much better than they? Matthew 6:26

The Blind man had “a strong voice,” but the people around “rebuke him to keep quiet, as if he didn’t have the right to speak.”“They don’t have compassion on him, but, rather, they are bothered by his cries,” the Pope said, asking: “How many times do we, when we see so many people in the street, needy people, sick and with nothing to eat, feel bothered?”

 St. Jerome cautioned against judging others, stating that only Christ at the Day of Judgement holds the "winnowing fan". Jesus Christ himself said, "With what judgment you judge, you shall be judged: and with what measure you mete, it shall be measured to you again" (Matthew 7:2, Douay Rheims Challoner Bible). St. Alphonsus Liguori presented Christ as a merciful Father ready to pardon those who repent. 

“God loves each of us as if there were only one of us.” - St. Augustine

"In our missionary activities we are asked to preach the Gospel to all: 'Instead of seeming to impose new obligations, [we] should appear as people who wish to share their joy, who point to a horizon of beauty and who invite others to a delicious banquet'" (Evangelii Gaudium, 14).

 “Love does not reflect; it is unreasonable and knows no moderation.” + St. Peter Chrysologus, bishop (406-450 A.D.)

"The more deeply the cross penetrates, the better; the more deprived of consolation that your suffering is, the purer it will be; the more creatures oppose us, the more closely shall we be united to God." - St. Paul of the Cross

“Have patience with all things, but chiefly have patience with yourself. Do not lose courage in considering your own imperfections, but instead set about remedying them—every day begin the task anew.”St. Francis de Sales

Christians are encouraged to apply the spirit of the Socratic Method, if not the actual technique, to their own spiritual lives (1 John 4:1; 1 Corinthians 11:27–29). The biblical command to “examine yourselves” (2 Corinthians 13:5) parallels Socrates’ quip that “the unexamined life is not worth living.” Other scriptural instances of a Socratic approach include Job 38:1–11 and Proverbs 18:17https://www.gotquestions.org/Socratic-Method.html

“The task of evangelizing all people constitutes the essential mission of the Church….  Evangelizing is in fact the grace and vocation proper to the Church, her deepest identity.  She exists in order to evangelize.” Saint Pope Paul VI (EN 14).  ► “The Mission of Christ the Redeemer, which is entrusted to the Church, is still very far from completion….  This mission is still only beginning … we must commit ourselves wholeheartedly to its service.” Saint Pope John Paul II Music track: Fantasy by PufinoSource: https://freetouse.com/musicVlog Music for Video (Free Download)

The greatest security we can have in this world that we are in the grace of God, does not consist in the feelings that we have of love to Him, but rather in an irrevocable abandonment of our whole being into His hands, and in a firm resolution never to consent to any sin great or small. --Saint Francis of SalesMusic track: Serenity by PufinoSource: https://freetouse.com/musicFree Music Without Copyright (Safe)

The church that is not jealously protected by mighty intercession and sacrificial labors will before long become the abode of every evil bird and the hiding place for unsuspected corruption. The creeping wilderness will soon take over that church that trusts in its own strength and forgets to watch and pray.Aiden Wilson Tozer

 “The men and women in our technical age risk becoming victims of their own intellectual and technical achievements, ending up in spiritual barrenness and emptiness of heart.”Pope Bendict

The righteous person finds his delight…in the law of the LORD.