You are called by divine plan to be his ministers, his apostles, his consolers.
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Why then do so many of you again betray Him today?
Why do many of you again flee today and leave Jesus and the Church all alone?
Why are so many of you again sleeping today? And that sleeping is often the very work in which you allow yourselves to be caught up and overwhelmed.
That sleeping is also the way in which you seek to adapt yourselves to the world, and to succeed in being agreeable to, as well as accepted and understood by, this world. That sleeping is everything which humanly weighs you down.
Go to Joseph, the poor man whose foster Son was born in a stable and whose family lived most frugally in a little forgotten village of Palestine but who held in his arms the wealth of the nations and the Light of the world and who can teach us all how to empty our hands of tinsel and fill them with love, faith, and happiness.
Grace in Every Season (May 1)
‘Emptying our hands of tinsel’ is about letting go of our own needs (comfort, acceptance etc) and embracing our true calling which is about God answering the needs of others through us. To not do what God has called us to, to not share what He has given us for the benefit of others, to choose to snooze… is to betray Him.
St. Joseph, pray for us!
