Today’s Thoughts: "May we never boast, except in the Cross of our Lord Jesus Christ. For the word of the Cross is the power of God to us who have been saved.” the entrance antiphon for today mass. It seems to express in a different way what the final sentence of our Gospel today implies, that we need to live with patient endurance in the midst of a very unpeaceful world. In our Gospel, Jesus is speaking of peace. He tells us, that persecution, pain, struggle and difficult times are ahead if we believe. He says these struggles and persecutions will come from everywhere they can even come from our family, but we can be at peace in the midst of all this if we faithfully endure.
This journey of faith often is a far cry from peace! It seems that believing, having faith takes a tremendous amount of trust in God and trust is not always easy. However, if we have that trust, that patient endurance, then peace can happen! In the midst of our daily struggles, in the midst of our struggles as a country and a world, in the midst of everything that makes it hard to have faith, to hope, to love we are asked to trust in God presence and action in our life and if we do, we will encounter the power and peace of the Cross that Jesus speaks of for us, his people, today and always! Have a holy and blessed Wednesday everyone.
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