Beware of routines that snub the heart and the Holy Spirit’s promptings to prayer, scripture, encounter, and The Holy Eucharist. Stay malleable to the Spirit and listening. Tolkien speaks of a caution against the mechanized approach to faith and society where conscience is reduced to science and wisdom to technique. Where ‘for the good’ is used as an apparatus to create “Church as a machine” or even faith as a machine.
Our faith is founded on a personal relationship in Jesus Christ. In your labors today, for the good, allow his Sacred Heart to be your own drawing people to the truth not through manipulation or technique but by the authenticity of your very self lived in Christ. God is ever-faithful to his people.
My people, what have I done to you, how have I been a burden to you? Answer me. — Micah 6:3
Join us in living the Gospel message in the spirit of St. Francis’ humble service. Christus in corde templa — place Christ in the temple of your heart!