Evangelization

If we gaze into Mary’s soul, we shall see that grace in her has flowered into a spiritual life of incalculable wealth: a life of recollection, prayer, uninterrupted oblation to God, continual contact, and intimate union with Him…those who want to live their devotion to Our Lady of Mount Carmel to the full must follow Mary into the depths of her interior life.

It is Simon Peter who clearly declares “You are the Christ, the Son of the living God.” Peter, who is to be recognized as the first in a long line of popes, makes this pronouncement that is the basis of all the Church’s magisterium – the identity of Our Lord as the true God and true man. If we do not get the identity of Jesus right, we cannot understand anything.

Pope Leo remarked, “The Church is extroverted by nature, as were the passion, death, and resurrection of Jesus. In every Eucharist, you will make his words your own: for you and for all.” He emphasized that priests are called to be “not masters, but guardians of the truth, because the mission belongs to Jesus.”