FORTY-FIRST FORTY DAY FAST
FOR THE TRUTH OF GOSPEL NONVIOLENCE
JULY 1-AUGUST 9
FAST FOOD, Twenty-Fifth Helping
We can expect, then, that the salvation Jesus offers us and his way of accomplishing it will be beyond our power to imagine, to comprehend with our human intellects, or to embrace with our human wills. His salvation is inseparable from the mystery of the cross, and the only way to enter into that mystery is to follow Jesus along the way of the cross. But we cannot recognize or follow this path by following any human culture. The only way we can authentically turn away from the seduction of power and prestige is through surrender to the Holy Spirit of God in Jesus. “Flesh and blood” cannot reveal this path to us, only grace can. And flesh and blood cannot empower us to follow it, only grace can. Through, with and in Christ we must “lift up our hearts” beyond the attractions and appearances of this world to receive it.
NO POWER BUT LOVE
Rev. David Knight, PhD (Moral Theology, Catholic University), 60 years a Catholic priest, author of forty books on Catholic Faith and teaching. For further biographical information see, https://cdom.org/father-david-buell-maria-knight-obituary/
-Emmanuel Charles McCarthy
www.emmanuelcharlesmccarthy.org
“Nothing is better or more necessary than love.
God is pleased with nothing but love.
One act of pure love is more precious in the eyes of God
and of the soul, and more profitable to the Church,
than all the good works together,
though it may seem as nothing.”
– St. John of the Cross
God is pleased with nothing but love.
One act of pure love is more precious in the eyes of God
and of the soul, and more profitable to the Church,
than all the good works together,
though it may seem as nothing.”
– St. John of the Cross
