Forgotten Truths To Set Faith Afire!

(Image Source: Wikimedia Commons) For Missionary Servants of the Poor it is a great privilege to represent the Church and the Holy Father in the midst of the poor. When the missions of the Third World are spoken of, many think that the best way to help the poor is to address their material needs: clothing, medicine, food, etc. In my life as missionary, after forty-six years, I have realized that the greatest gift we can give the poor is God and His divine grace through the Sacraments of the Church.   Father Giovanni Salerno, Founder

[When Satan tempted Jesus in the desert] our Lord was not denying that man must be fed, or that social justice must be preached, but He was asserting that these things are not first.  (Image source: Wikimedia Commons ) He was, in effect, saying to Satan, 'You tempt me to a religion which would relieve want; you want Me to be a baker instead of a Savior; to be a social reformer, instead of a Redeemer. You are tempting Me away from My Cross, suggesting that I be a cheap leader of people, feeding their bellies instead of their souls... Be gone Satan! I am not just a social worker who has never been hungry Himself, but one who says I reject any plan which promises to make men richer, without making them holier.’ Venerable Fulton J. Sheen 

(Image source: Wikimedia Commons ) Christ did not bequeath to the Church a mission in the political, economic or social order: the purpose he assigned to it was a religious one. Vatican Council II

(Image source: Wikimedia Commons The gravest danger facing the Church in the future is politicalization or the turning of theology into politics, seminaries into schools of social service and the preaching of the Word of God into the vague notion of “presence”.  Venerable Fulton J. Sheen