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Sometimes We Are Tempted To Be That Kind Of Christian Who Keeps The Lord’s Wounds At Arm’s Length. Yet Jesus Wants Us To Touch Human Misery, To Touch The Suffering Flesh Of Others. He Hopes That We Will Stop Looking For Those Personal Or Communal Niches Which Shelter Us From The Maelstrom Of Human Misfortune And Instead Enter Into The Reality Of Other People’s Lives And Know The Power Of Tenderness. Whenever We Do So, Our Lives Become Wonderfully Complicated And We Experience Intensely What It Is To Be A People, To Be Part Of A People.

Our Families Need To Ask For The Gift Of The Spirit! Through Prayer, Even In The Busiest Times, We Give Time Back To God, We Find The Peace That Comes From Appreciating The Important Things, And We Encounter The Joy Of God’s Unexpected Gifts. Through Daily Prayer May Our Homes Become, Like The House Of Martha And Mary, Places Where Jesus Always Finds A Warm Welcome.

How Many People Worldwide Are Victims Of This Type Of Slavery, In Which The Person Is At The Service Of His Or Her Work, While Work Should Offer A Service To People So They May Have Dignity. I Ask My Brothers And Sisters In Faith And All Men And Women Of Good Will For A Decisive Choice To Combat Trafficking In Persons, Which Includes "slave Labor."

May We Learn To Say “thank You” To God And To One Another. We Teach Children To Do It, And Then We Forget To Do It Ourselves!

One Form Of Prayer Moves Us Particularly To Take Up The Task Of Evangelization And To Seek The Good Of Others: It Is The Prayer Of Intercession. Let Us Peer For A Moment Into The Heart Of Saint Paul, To See What His Prayer Was Like. It Was Full Of People: "...i Constantly Pray With You In Every One Of My Prayers For All Of You... Because I Hold You In My Heart" (phil 1:4, 7). Here We See That Intercessory Prayer Does Not Divert Us From True Contemplation, Since Authentic Contemplation Always Has A Place For Others.