FORTY-FIRST FORTY DAY FAST
FOR THE TRUTH OF GOSPEL NONVIOLENCE
JULY 1-AUGUST 9

FAST FOOD, Twenty-Sixth Helping
Jesus teaches us to use everything that happens as an opportunity to make a life-giving, loving response. He does not use his divine power to control other people and events in order to protect us from suffering; rather, he gives the divine power of his grace to us so that we ourselves might respond, in the weakness of our humanity, to every person and every event with love. By “loving back” in response to everything that happens to us, we turn even evil into good. And we are empowered to love back, not just with our love but with a love that is a sharing in his own divine, redeeming act of love: “Just as I have loved you, you also should love one another.” Jesus would redeem human nature by empowering human beings to play an active part in their own salvation and the salvation of the world.
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