An Opportunity

Remember that each time you attend Mass, there is an opportunity to learn more about God and an opportunity to share your faith with others after you leave. This does not require a recitation of the Gospel or the homily. It can simply be how you treat your neighbors, with compassion and love. Each moment of our lives should have some movement upward, higher, heavenward. Our gaze should always be upward, toward God. Each moment of our lives we should strive to avoid the mediocrity of sin. Our aim should always be toward pleasing God. Our ambition should be for eternal life and salvation. The arena of life presents us with an opportunity for prayer, penance, and obedience.

We must strive to be pure and triumphant servants of God.

Be ambitious then, with sincere prayers, keep love in both your heart and your life; remember to pray for something great for yourself and for mankind. Each of us will have only one life in this world, prayer will help us to make the most of it. Take advantage of each opportunity to praise and thank God. Attend Mass and pray as often as you can. Let your life be filled with the Good News. Each day increase your knowledge and learning about your faith. Allow your prayers to carry you higher and higher, closer and closer to God.

Allow your prayers to guide you to legitimate pursuits of love, life, and peace. Allow your prayers to guide you in the path to serve God. Allow your prayers to teach you fidelity to duty. We each have the opportunity to bring glory to God, to sanctify ourselves, and to be a soldier for God.

Reasons

How wonderful yesterday was,—I went to Mass and listened to the Archbishop’s homily, full of hope, but both goodness and holiness are to be cherished, protected, and encouraged. We all are born with them but we must not allow our hearts, minds, and souls to become fatigued by either carnal or secular thoughts and desires which can cloud or confuse our judgement.

I am in a state of returning inspiration because of the desire to write and photograph. I feel the need to be of service to God, to help. I am happiest when I am in the Cathedral, silently praying to God. I like the moments when I am silent and my mind is directed toward God, and my destiny is his destiny, his desire for me. I want to make myself available to him without questions, without hesitation, without doubt.

I want to live a life that is completely obedient to God.

What I have is hope; there are always reasons to pray to God.