all<\/em> who shall \u201cReturn to the Lord, your God, with all your heart and all your soul\u201d (Deuteronomy 30:11).<\/p>\nThroughout the Mass I heard Jesus repeatedly say \u201cI have come to call sinners.\u201d\u00a0 I could hear him talking to me!\u00a0 He was reaching his merciful hand of love to all of us who have gone astray: either in our week, in our year, or in our life!\u00a0 This knowledge turned into real belief when together we acclaimed, \u201cLord, I am not worthy that You should enter under my roof, but only say the word and my soul shall be healed.\u201d<\/p>\n
In short time He was reigniting the simple faith that I portrayed\u00a0in the Bible-holding man crossing my path just an hour earlier.\u00a0 I could see it in myself, through the love of Jesus Christ who stood crucified before me and who offered Himself\u2014Body and Blood\u2014that I may receive Him and enter into communion with Him.\u00a0 The forces of evil and lies that had set up shop in my head were being dwarfed by the love of God.\u00a0 Once again, it was Him doing for me what I could not do for myself.\u00a0 It was simple, even if I don\u2019t have it all figured out.<\/p>\n
Knowledge is one thing. \u00a0Belief is another.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
On my way to church yesterday morning I was stopped at a red light where a young man, about my age, was crossing with his Bible in hand.\u00a0 It seemed to me that he was heading to a church service at a nearby Methodist or Presbyterian church, and I envisioned him to be answering a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":530,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[130],"tags":[141],"table_tags":[],"class_list":["post-529","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-alcohol-and-drug-addiction","tag-general"],"yoast_head":"\n
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