Monday, June 10, 2019

“Have you ever noticed, in the Creed, how quickly we pass over the life of our Lord?  “Born”, what’s the next thing? “Suffered under Pontius Pilate.”  Suffered.  Nothing about the Beatitudes, nothing about His miracles, nothing about His conflicts with the fundamentalists and modernists of His time, just “born” – “suffered”.  Why does the Creed pass over His Earthly life?  Because there’s only one thing to be told about a human life: do we or do we not do the Father’s will?  The tiny little details, whether it’s the office of a priest, of a nun, a mother, a secretary, a doctor, a lawyer, it makes no difference.  The details we can skip!  Everything can be said about life if we did the Father’s will.  He did it, therefore, omit the details.” Archbishop Fulton Sheen

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