
“Not everyone who says to me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ will enter the kingdom of heaven, but only the one who does the will of my Father in heaven.”

The Catholic Diocese of Myitkyina commemorated World Refugee Day on June 21 with a special Eucharistic celebration at St. Columban Cathedral, bringing together Church leaders, humanitarian workers, and approximately 400 displaced people to pray for those uprooted by conflict and hardship.

On this great feast of the Nativity of Saint John the Baptist, the Church holds up for us a man who was great not because of what he achieved, but because of who he pointed to.

The fire that consumed Maria Za Cer's house in 1996 took everything: her walls, her belongings, the fragile sense of security she had built as a young widow. But it could not take her faith.

The displaced came carrying more than their own weight—they carried the weight of villages lost, farms abandoned, and dreams scattered like seeds in a storm.

King Hezekiah's prayer is simple: “Save us, that all the kingdoms of the earth may know that you alone are God.”

“Remove the plank from your own eye first,” He says, “then you will see clearly to remove the splinter from your brother’s eye.”

Fear is the great paralyzer. It whispers that we are alone, that our enemies will triumph, that God has forgotten us.

“No one can serve two masters. He will either hate one and love the other, or be devoted to one and despise the other. You cannot serve God and mammon.”

“Do not store up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moth and decay destroy, and thieves break in and steal. But store up treasures in heaven.”