My Articulate Heart

The call to deny our self, take up the cross and follow Jesus must resound in our ears day and night, no matter what vocation we are chosen to lead. This is inevitably an invitation to the peak of Calvary to empty our self and give life to the other just as the Eucharist cures our soul and gives new life. Christ sealed the marital covenant with his church, by his self gift of the Eucharist [His body and blood], on the altar of the cross, embracing us into a one flesh union with Him. We who are united in the marital covenant, sealed by His blood [sacramentally] too become one flesh with our spouse, where the alter is - the bed. The sealant that consummates the marital covenant is sexual love, just as Eucharist is in the former. This union indeed is modeled on the mystery of the Holy Trinity. We too are made partakers of this mystery as Christ unites us to His body. The covenant Jesus sealed on the cross with us [the church] is renewed in every celebration of...

Mother Teresa often reminded her sisters, “We are not social workers, but brides of Christ.” What they saw in the impoverished and downtrodden was not merely a mouth to feed or a wound to heal, but a person endowed with dignity—a person created for life in its fullness through Jesus Christ. A meal may satisfy hunger for a day, and a moment of care may bring temporary relief. But beneath every immediate need lies a deeper and more fundamental need: to discover the fullness of life for which each person was created, ultimately finding eternal communion with God the Father. True love for our neighbour is therefore concerned not only with his immediate well-being but also with the salvation of his soul. Christian charity attends to the immediate need while never losing sight of the original need. We cannot fully recognise this deepest need of every human being—the need for abundant life in God—unless we first embrace this truth ourselves in Jesus Christ. Any good we do, when it is disconne...