"For seventy years, Mother Mary has protected and guided our diocese," Bishop Henry Eikhlein said. He invited all to give thanks for her maternal care.
Today, the Word of God invites us into a divine economy of breathtaking generosity—an economy where the measure we use for others becomes the measure God uses for us, and where mercy is both our plea to God and our calling from Him.
A persistent human temptation is to believe that our spiritual state is fixed—that we are either essentially good or irredeemably flawed, and that our past actions have sealed our fate.