What the modern world sorely lacks is faith and guts.
Thought For The Day
- Donald R. McClarey
Donald R. McClarey
Cradle Catholic. Active in the pro-life movement since 1973. Father of three, one in Heaven, and happily married for 43 years. Small town lawyer and amateur historian. Former president of the board of directors of the local crisis pregnancy center for a decade.
And it is crippled with fear. We are afraid to venture outside our safe zone.
With a new bag of blessed miraculous medals in my pocket I went back to Wisconsin from a retreat held at Marytown in Libertyville IL.
In the next week my life changed.
I started to Trust in God.
The encounters that I had and confirmations that followed changed my course in life for the better.
Jesus, Mary, Joseph…. and now, (p)hilip … Save souls.
“Did you not know that I must be about my Father’s business.” Jesus’ response to Our Lady when he was found in the Temple after MIA for three days, became a reality in my life and has continued.
In a few weeks my canadate will be confirmed and she’ll receive her first communion.
Five weeks ago a 54 year old who is a member of the LDS, said YES to leaving that church and becoming Catholic. This person has been receiving graces from listening to us praying the Rosary in the nursing home.
Our Mother does the important work.
Show up and Trust.
I came across this recently;
*When John Kavanaugh, the noted and famous ethicist, went to Calcutta, he was seeking Mother Teresa … and more. He went for three months to work at “the house of the dying” to find out how best he could spend the rest of his life.
When he met Mother Teresa, he asked her to pray for him. “What do you want me to pray for?” she replied. He then uttered the request he had carried thousands of miles: “Clarity. Pray that I have clarity.”
“No,” Mother Teresa answered, “I will not do that.” When he asked her why, she said, “Clarity is the last thing you are clinging to and must let go of.” When Kavanaugh said that she always seemed to have clarity, the very kind of clarity he was looking for, Mother Teresa laughed and said: “I have never had clarity; what I have always had is trust. So I will pray that you trust God.”*