Tag: Service
Connecting the parts of our lives
I enjoy customer service…I enjoy serving others. And now I use the word to serve God…a natural fit…to serve. I had not connected the two parts of my life…the two parts are now one; writing reveals. —Gail Bardis People who serve others because they truly desire to do so have found a great secret that… Read More ›
Attain Perfection in Your Profession
Therefore it is beneficial and proper for each person, in accordance with the orientation that he has chosen and the grace that he has received, to strive most zealously and diligently to attain to perfection in the work that be has undertaken. He may praise and admire the virtues of others, but he should never… Read More ›
Do not waste your God-given talents and mission
Vatican City, Nov 13, 2011 / 12:10 pm (CNA/EWTN News).- Pope Benedict XVI used his Sunday Angelus address Nov. 13 to remind people that God has given everybody both talents and a mission in life. “God calls all men to life and bestows him with talents, while entrusting him with a mission to accomplish,” said… Read More ›
Labor Day: a spirituality of work
“Work,” the Persian poet Gibran writes, “is love made visible.” A spirituality of work is based on a heightened sense of sacramentality, of the idea that everything that is, is holy and that our hands consecrate it to the service of God. When we grow radishes in a small container in a city apartment, we… Read More ›
Reflecting on Lent
. . . we are halfway through Lent. We have gone through twenty days and three Sundays. We have twenty days and three Sundays ahead. So it is a good moment to stop and look. What have we been doing with this Lent? Going back and listening to Benedict again: During these days, therefore, we… Read More ›
Service is a Reward
Service is a reward, not a punishment. This idea is foreign to people. . . . We think that faithful work should be rewarded by a vacation for the rest of our lives. But God offers us something very different: more work, more opportunities, increased responsibilities, along with greater abilities, resources, wisdom, and empowerment. We… Read More ›