Entering into the kingdom of God requires this kind of openness to and before God, so that this kingdom can come alive in us, and God’s power and covenantal love can produce its fruit within us.
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Conversion is the Gospel, and salvation
The Gospel speaks exactly the opposite truth of the world.
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The ‘greatest story ever told’ continues today
And that glory will have eternal meaning!
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Angels bring us closer to God
The hope is that they are doing their job.
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Longing for the life Jesus offers us
But let us face it — curiosity is not enough.
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Be formed by the Gospel, and share the life of the kingdom of God
This, also, may have been a favorite Gospel passage of St. Vincent de Paul, who formed the Congregation of the Mission religious community of men and women, and priests and nuns who were formed to form others.
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Finding God within, among others binds us more deeply than anything else
For us all to discover being true brothers and sisters in Christ, to become the body of Christ in the world is, I think, what Jesus was talking about then and is just as true today.
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God’s blessings, graces flow from the simplest of things.
It is the time for each of us to see it, too.
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Guarding what is ‘entrusted to us’ — the faith
It is up to us also to pay keen attention to the quality of our soil and its openness to hear that word of God and the teachings of Jesus.
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Eternal life today, tomorrow, forever — the richest thing of all
It does not get any better, more direct, more specific or more clear than that.
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