God has created me
to do him some definite service.
He has committed some work to me
which he has not committed to another.
I have my mission.
I may never know what it is in this life,
but I shall be told in the next.
I am a link in a chain,
a bond of connection between persons.
He has not created me for nothing.
I shall do good work.
I shall do his work.
He may take me away from my friends.
He may throw me among strangers.
He may make me feel desolate,
make my spirits sink,
hide my future from me –
Still He knows what He is about.
John Henry Cardinal Newman
Visible Expression
The ecclesial community, while always having a universal dimension, finds its most immediate and visible expression in the parish. It is there that the Church is seen locally. In a certain sense it is...
"... the Church living in the midst of the homes of her sons and daughters..."
Pope John Paul II
Christifideles Laici [27]
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