Lord, if your people still have need of my services, I will not avoid the toil. Your will be done. I have fought the good fight long enough. Yet if you bid me continue to hold the battle line in defense of your camp, I will never beg to be excused from failing strength. I will do the work you entrust to me. While you command, I will fight beneath your banner - Saint Martin of Tours.
Thank you for your service and may God continue to bless, guide and protect you, Amen!
My brothers and sisters, as today’s readings remind us to love God because of His loves us, let us do so by repenting from our sins, by being obedient to Him, by being loyal to Him, by practicing and living out the gospel of Christ, and by deepening our faith in Him through prayer, meditation and the reading of the Holy Scriptures.
Let us follow Christ’s example in today’s gospel reading by being patient and persevering when we are rejected, persecuted, cajoled, threatened, maltreated and abused for the sake of gospel, because our reward will be great in heaven.
My dear brothers and sisters in Christ, do not be terrified, but have faith in God always when you face challenges, obstacles and difficulties in life as a child of God. Go to Christ in prayer like the disciples did in today’s gospel story and totally trust and have confidence in Him whose love impels us to live no longer for ourselves, but for Him, our Savior and Redeemer.
