Every Catholic Christian takes on the mission of Jesus Christ
which is to establish the Kingdom of God.
Love requires that I be involved in this mission and ministry of Jesus Christ.
My Catholic Christian spirituality is not about myself but about my loving others.
It is to love others—any other, every other, all others without exception—as the Lord loves me.
His love is the norm for my spiritual growth.
Something from Scripture
“When the Son of Man comes in his glory, and all the angels with him, he will sit upon his glorious throne, and all the nations will be assembled before him. He will separate them one from another, as a shepherd separates the sheep from the goats. Then he will say to those on his right, ‘Come, you who are blessed by my Father. Inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world. I was hungry, a stronger, thirsty, naked, in prison. . . Amen, I say to you, whatever you did for one of these least brothers and sisters of mine, you did for me.’ Mt., 25, 31ff
“The Son of Man did not come to be served but to serve and to give His life as a ransom for the many.”
“Peter, do you love me?” Then feed my lambs and my sheep.
v Offer compassion, thoughtfulness, and sensitivity to wounded bodies and wounded hearts.
Paul’s prayer: “May Christ dwell in your hearts through and faith and may love be the root and foundation of your life so that you may comprehend with all the holy one the breath, length, height and depth of God’s unconditional love for you.”
Jesus associated with the sinners, the poor, the rejects of society
and called them “Blessed are the poor, for the Kingdom of God is theirs.”
Some signs remind us of needs and organizations given to helping others: