As your captain, I'm going to push you to not fall back on defense, but to play offense, and to play our match -- the Gospel, together.
Interpretation
This quote encourages proactive engagement rather than defensiveness in pursuing a shared mission or goal.
Pope Francis emphasizes the importance of taking an assertive approach in life and faith, urging individuals to focus on positive actions and collaboration toward a common purpose, rather than retreating into a defensive mindset. The call to 'play offense' suggests a need for initiative and teamwork in advancing the values of the Gospel.
In practice
In a team meeting focused on project goals, this quote can inspire members to take charge and contribute actively.
We are a church of sinners but we must not be afraid of holiness. Do not be afraid to aim for holiness and turn yourselves over to the love of God. Holiness does not mean performing extraordinary things but carrying out daily things in an extraordinary way that is with love, joy and faith.
I join the March for Life in Washington with my prayers. May God help us respect all life, especially the most vulnerable.
No one must say that they cannot be close to the poor because their own lifestyle demands more attention to other areas. This is an excuse commonly heard in academic, business or professional, and even ecclesial circles. While it is quite true that the essential vocation and mission of the lay faithful is to strive that earthly realities and all human activity may be transformed by the Gospel, none of us can think we are exempt from concern for the poor and for social justice
We face so many challenges in life: poverty, distress, humiliation, the struggle for justice, persecutions, the difficulty of daily conversion, the effort to remain faithful to our call to holiness, and many others. But if we open the door to Jesus and allow him to be part of our lives, if we share our joys and sorrows with him, then we will experience the peace and joy that only God, who is infinite love, can give.
More and more people work on Sundays as a consequence of the competitiveness imposed by a consumer society.
This Christmas may we be consistent in living the Gospel, welcoming Jesus into the centre of our lives.
The first and last task of aleader is to keep hope alive.
What to an outsider will be no more than the vigorous presentation of a conviction, to an employee may be the manifestation of a determination which it is not safe to thwart.
A competent leader can get efficient service from poor troops, while on the contrary an incapable leader can demoralize the best of troops.
TEAMWORK: the fuel that allows common people attain uncommon results.
There is a kind of woman who is economically powerful, professionally powerful, who threatens a white male grip on power that has a long historic precedent in the country. Independent women living outside of marriage threaten all kinds of things about the way power is supposed to work.
Leaders create and inspire new leaders by instilling faith in their leadership abilities and helping them develop and hone leadership skills they don't know they possess.
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