|
Dear St. Mary Friends,
This being Veterans Day, we must take this opportunity to thank and bless all the Veterans here in our parish. Yesterday, St. Mary School had a wonderful Assembly which included a number of our local veterans. The boys and girls presented poems, songs and gratitude to those present. This reflection was presented from Archbishop Fulton Sheen’s pocket-sized “Wartime Prayer Book,” compiled for soldiers, sailors, marines, and airmen during World War II:
I am not fighting for a freedom that means the right to do whatever I please but for a freedom that means the right to do whatever I ought. Oughtness implies Law; Law implies Intelligence; and Intelligence implies God.
I am not fighting for freedom from some thing; but for freedom for something: the glorious freedom to call my soul my own and then to save it in cooperation with God’s grace.
I am not fighting to preserve the kind of world we had just before this war. If I were, I would be fighting to preserve a world that produced tyrants and dictators. The new world must be a better world than that, or it is not worth fighting for.
This past Wednesday evening with Diane Foley was a wonderful evening of grace and inspiration, and a very good way to begin our three-part speaker series for this 125th Jubilee Year, "Witnesses to Faith." We thank Diane, and as any mature disciple should do, look to our own faith, and ask the Lord's transforming and strengthening grace that we too will be counted among his witnesses.
| 
