Whole Hearted IV: Generosity Calls For the Investment of Talents (Fr. Michael Rubeling, 11/19/2017)

2017-11-19

The fourth of a five part series. Below is the prayer to Bl. John Henry Newman: “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 it in this life, but I shall be told it in the next. I am a link in a chain, a bond of connection between persons. He has not created me for naught... Therefore, I will trust Him...If I am in sickness, my sickness may serve Him, in perplexity, my perplexity may serve Him. If I...

The fourth of a five part series. Below is the prayer to Bl. John Henry Newman:

“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 it in this life, but I shall be told it in the next. I am a link in a chain, a bond of connection between persons. He has not created me for naught...

Therefore, I will trust Him...If I am in sickness, my sickness may serve Him, in perplexity, my perplexity may serve Him. If I am in sorrow, my sorrow may serve Him. He does nothing in vain. He knows what He is about. He may take away 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.”

- Bl. John Henry Newman

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