The Worst Poverty
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"When I pick up a person from the street, hungry,
I give him a plate of rice, a piece of bread. But a person who is shut out, who
feels unwanted, unloved, terrified, the person who has been thrown out of
society – that spiritual poverty is much harder to overcome. And abortion,
which often follows from contraception, brings a people to be spiritually poor,
and that is the worst poverty and the most difficult to overcome."
Saint Teresa of
Less We Forget
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“God has created me to do Him some definite service; He has committed some work to me, which He has not committed to another. I have my mission – I never may know it in this life, but I should be told it in the next. Somehow, I am necessary for His purposes, as necessary in my place as an Archangel in his – if, indeed, I fail, He can raise another, as He could make the stones children of Abraham. Yet, I have a part in this great work; I am a link in the chain, a bond of connection between persons. He has not created me for naught. I shall do good, I shall do His work; I shall be an angel of peace, a preacher of truth in my own place, while not intending it, if I do but keep His commandments and serve Him in my calling.
Therefore, I will trust Him. Whatever, wherever I am, I can never be thrown away. If I am in sickness, my sickness may serve Him; in perplexity, my perplexity may serve Him; if I am in sorrow, my sorrow may serve Him. My sickness, or perplexity, or sorrow may be necessary causes of some great end, which is quite beyond us. He does nothing in vain; He may prolong my life, He may shorten it; He knows what He is about; He may take away my friends; He may throw me among strangers; He may make me feel desolate, make my spirits sink, hide the future from me - still He knows what He is about.”
Saint John Cardinal Newman
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