Are our lives truly filled with the presence of God? How many things take the place of God in my life each day?
Interpretation
This quote invites reflection on the divine presence in our daily lives and the distractions that overshadow it.
Pope Francis prompts us to contemplate the depth of our relationship with God and challenges us to consider how often we allow worldly distractions to replace our connection to the divine. He encourages self-examination regarding the sacredness of our daily experiences and the potential barriers we erect against true spiritual presence.
In practice
In a church sermon discussing faith and daily challenges.
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.
I am aware that no man is a villain in his own eyes.
We on Earth have just awakened to the great oceans of space and time from which we have emerged. We are the legacy of 15 billion years of cosmic evolution. We have a choice: We can enhance life and come to know the universe that made us, or we can squander our 15 billion-year heritage in meaningless self-destruction. What happens in the first second of the next cosmic year depends on what we do, here and now, with our intelligence and our knowledge of the cosmos.
A 'fair' fight between non-equals is not fair, and being blind to power is an implicit endorsement of the powerful.
If the freedom of speech is taken away then dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep to the slaughter.
There is no good or bad without us, there is only perception. There is the event itself and the story we tell ourselves about what it means.
When machines fail, when technology fails, when the conventional religion fails, people have got to have something. Even a zombin lurching through the night can seem pretty cheerful compared to the existential comedy/horror of the ozone layer dissolving under the combined assult of a million flurocarbon spray cans of deoderant." - The Mist
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