St. Paul summons us to break away from the sinful world and live as children of light. In part, this entails shunning and exposing the “fruitless works of darkness,” such as treating others as means and not as proper ends in themselves.
Read MoreToday, we celebrate Christ’s Ascension to heaven and in the opening prayer we ask that the Father “gladden us with holy joys and make us rejoice with devout thanksgiving, for the Ascension of Christ your Son is our exaltation.”
Read MoreIn his affectionate words of farewell, St. Paul the Apostle leaves us with one of the earliest and clearest expressions of faith in the Blessed Trinity found in the New Testament and he prays for the granting of all kinds of supernatural gifts.
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