Monsignor Pope Ping!
Mother Teresa: Do not worry
The future is not in our hands. We have no power over it. We can act only today. We will allow the good God to make plans for the future for yesterday has gone, tomorrow has not yet come and we have only today to make Him known, loved and served. So we do not worry about the future.
I think that a person who is attached to riches, who lives with the worry of riches, is actually very poor. If this person puts his money at the service of others, then he is rich, very rich.
St Theresa of Avila
Let nothing disturb thee; Let nothing dismay thee: All things pass; God never changes. Patience attains All that it strives for. He who has God Finds he lacks nothing: God alone suffices.
O Christ Jesus, when all is darkness and we feel our weakness and helplessness, give us the sense of Your presence, Your love, and Your strength. Help us to have perfect trust in Your protecting love and strengthening power, so that nothing may frighten or worry us, for, living close to You, we shall see Your hand, Your purpose, Your will through all things. By Saint Ignatius of Loyola
Then why buy a gun, or have a savings account, or fund and train a fire department? Those are simplistic examples, but you see my point.
Return to the thread after Paris situation quiets down.
This is great, thanks.