Created with a purpose and a personal call

Called out of our tombs

 Human dignity 

💢“What is it that is about to be created, that enjoys such honor? It is man—that great and wonderful living creature, more precious in the eyes of God than all other creatures! For him the heavens and the earth, the sea and all the rest of creation exist. God attached so much importance to his salvation that He did not spare his own Son for the sake of man. Nor does He ever cease to work, trying every possible means, until He has raised man up to himself and made him sit at his right hand.”

— ST. JOHN CHRYSOSTOM (died 407)

💢 We are each of us, as Pope Benedict XVI (died December 2022) famously said, “not some casual and meaningless product of evolution.” 

“Each of us is the result of a thought of God. Each of us is willed, each of us is loved, each of us is necessary,” Benedict reminded us. My grandmother is still willed and loved and necessary today, no more or less than my 1-year-old daughter. 

— The Pillar July 22, 2023

💢 It is important to realise that being a follower of Christ is intended to be a source of deep happiness and a realisation that one is truly fortunate to have discovered this vision of life. The happiness comes, even in a time of difficulty, from our close relationship with God, and a lifestyle that corresponds with how God made us. 

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