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Hear His Voice

April 15, 2008 |

The Holy Father lands today in Washington.  Over the next six days, we will hear a great deal about him and a great deal from others about ourselves - about us as American Catholics.  

Too much of what we willl hear will be garbage.

Over the next few days, we need to only listen to two things - we must truly listen to the Holy Father and then truly listen from within to the Holy Spirit speaking to us.  This apostolic mission by the Holy Father should stir us - it should encourage us to reach for a deeper faith and respond to a call to action.

We must not be discouraged by the words of the naysayers, those who do not know better, and those who wish to tear down our Church.  We must not be disheartened by our own nagging weaknesses that will tell us that this hope that the Holy Father will speak of is just too hard, too distant to our own lives.

Today’s gospel (John 10) has Christ telling the people of Jerusalem,

“My sheep hear my voice; I know them and they follow me.”

We are Christ’s sheep - we know his voice.  We hear his voice through the Holy Father.  We will hear his voice this week talking directly to us as a Church.  Let us turn our ear to him and truly listen.  And let us be transformed by what we hear.


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