The Cry Of A Baby Is God's

When We Give Help To The Poor, We Are Not Doing The Work Of Aid Agencies 'in A Christian Way'. Those Are Good, It Is A Decent Thing To Do - Aid Work Is Good And Quite Human - But It Is Not Christian Poverty, Which St. Paul Desires Of Us And Preaches To Us. Christian Poverty Is That I Give Of My Own, And Not Of That Which Is Left Over - I Give Even That, Which I Need For Myself, To The Poor Person, Because I Know That He Enriches Me. Why Does The Poor Person Enrich Me? Because Jesus Himself Told Us That He Is In The Poor Person.

The Great Danger In Today's World, Pervaded As It Is By Consumerism, Is The Desolation And Anguish Born Of A Complacent Yet Covetous Heart, The Feverish Pursuit Of Frivolous Pleasures, And A Blunted Conscience. Whenever Our Interior Life Becomes Caught Up In Its Own Interests And Concerns, There Is No Longer Room For Others, No Place For The Poor.

Dear Brothers And Sisters, The Church Loves You! Be An Active Presence In The Community, As Living Cells, As Living Stones.

The Church Is Called To Draw Near To Every Person, Beginning With The Poorest And Those Who Suffer.

To Be Prophets, In Particular, By Demonstrating How Jesus Lived On This Earth, And To Proclaim How The Kingdom Of God Will Be In Its Perfection. A Religious Must Never Give Up Prophesising Let Us Think About What So Many Great Saints, Monks And Religious Men And Women Have Done, From St Anthony The Abbot Onward. Being Prophets May Sometimes Involve Making Ruido [spanish For Noise]. I Do Not Know How To Put It Prophecy Makes Noise, Uproar, Some Say 'a Mess.' But In Reality, The Charism Of Religious People Is Like Yeast: Prophecy Announces The Spirit Of The Gospel.