December 23, 2008 

Family of God by Rita Ring 

                We are to share our love with
            the Church and the world —

                God fills us as members of the
            body of Christ with His life —
            He wants us to be His instruments
            in the world.

                He wants us to share the Good
            News — He wants us to live
            by the Gospel  and share the
            Gospel with the world.

                The family in the Church
            and the parish are to live
            the Gospel of Jesus —

                The family of the Father —
            loving as God intended from
            the beginning. We in the Shepherds of
            Christ are to tell people of the intimacy
            God wants with them — God
            has called religious in a special
            spousal relationship with Him —
            priests, sisters, brothers are
            married to Jesus — Jesus is
            enough for one living the
            celibate life in religious life
            Jesus gives us Himself in the Eucharist —
            The Father, Son and Holy Spirit live in the
            graced baptized soul and want this intimacy
            with us —

                Religious are to teach people
            about this loving intimacy
            God wants with His people in
            the Church —

                The love is to permeate
            our families, Churches and schools —
            Love as a Family with God the
            Father as our Father —

                Mary our Mother — we
            bring forth a family of love
            in the Church affecting
            others —

                God calls men and women to
            celibacy as religious and priests —
            this helps to give a special
            gift to God for all the
            violations of sex in the
            world — sins of the flesh —

                We are called to faith —
                to believe in Jesus and His
            truths and to live the Gospel
            in our lives — to be a witness
            to God's people — to live in such
            oneness with the Trinity that
            God powerfully operates in
            us as we live our lives in
            the Church and the world.

                We in the Shepherds of Christ
            have been taught about prayer for 17
            years. Life in the Church,
            unity with God — being
            united to the Mass, the sacrifice
            of Calvary — sacramentally made
            present —

                The offering up of our lives
            united to the Mass in the
            Morning Offering —

                Living our lives as the
            spouse of Jesus — Living
            according to the Father's will
            in love — Living in the Spirit

                Being permeated by God's
            love is joy — Sin drives us
            away from God — living in sin
            and lying hurts our relationship
            with God and others —

                Jesus came in the womb of
            Mary through the power of the
            Holy Spirit — As we go to the
            Immaculate Heart of our Mother
            her spiritual womb — the Spirit
            of God forms us more and more in
            the image of Jesus —

                The incarnation goes on
            in us —

                Life in the Spirit

                We pray the rosary and meditate
            on the Mysteries of the lives
            of Jesus and Mary —

                We give our hearts, our
            tainted hearts, to the pure
            and holy Hearts of Jesus and
            Mary.

                We live in faith — we
            pray — we live in love —

                We live by the Gospel —
            the Word lives in us as a two-
            edged sword —

                We are to renew our life
            of love — God has taught
            us how to make our whole
            life a prayer united to the
            Mass — an offering of our
            lives to God — a sacrifice —
            the joys, sorrows, looking
            at flowers, loving our grandchildren
            our fellow workers as God
            intends — all is to be an offering
            of love to God

                Living every moment
            more purely and with great love to
            please Jesus —

                We live the Christian life —
                We witness in this world
                    as Christians —

                We affect the world and
                    others by our lives
                    lived united to our God —

                We live lives that become
            fuller and fuller — not more and more
            empty —

            We are committed to justice,
            peace, unity living in
            love — virtuous lives as
            Christ has showed us —

                We are committed to
            our family to be as God
            wants us — to live in
            community as a family
            of love —

                Our mission always in truth to
            help build the Kingdom of God.
            We want to share the Good News
            with all — to be people of
            faith and witness to the world —
            hurting and seeking faith —

                We are disciples of the Lord —
            we live in the Holy Spirit —
            we are to live lives of joy and
            love — witnessing to the truth,
            filled with faith in God and
            living by the commandments
            of God —

                We have retreats in China,
            Florida and they are on the internet
            to help pray for the priests, the
            Church and the world — praying
            as a family — the Shepherds of Christ to
            help bring down grace — united as
            a body to the Masses going on
            around the world —

                Praying to the Father, in the
            Name of Jesus in the Holy Spirit —
            united to the Mass — through the
            intercession of Mary with all
            the angels and saints — a family of prayer,
            living more holy lives, united in
            the Pure and Holy Hearts of Jesus and
            Mary.

                We do all things for the honor
            and glory of God — begging for
            grace and mercy from God for
            the members of the Church,
            families, parishes, the
            world.

                Dear God

                We pray with all our hearts
            together for the souls of this earth.
            We unite to the Holy Sacrifice of the
            Mass as a family. We pray
            in the Holy Spirit with all the
            angels and saints —

                We pray for this Reign of
            Peace Mary promised at Fatima and the
            Reign of the Sacred Heart and Triumph of
            Mary's Immaculate Heart as Jesus told Fr. Carter.

                We believe it is essential
            these prayer chapters are begun
            using the Prayer Manual as
            God told Fr. Carter for this world to
            have peace —

                Mary said at Fatima
            until a sufficient number of
            people have given their
            hearts to Jesus and Mary we won't have
            peace in the world —

                We want deeper intimacy
            with God — we want joy
            in our hearts from living holy
            lives as God intends,
            peaceful lives — living in
            God's love —

            We want deeper love with
            our brothers and sisters —

                I ask this through Jesus —

                                        Amen —

                The secret to happiness is
                    loving

                If we had a disease that
            could be cured and we spent
            our whole life afflicted to it
            wouldn't we wish — if a
            cure was there we would
            have known about it.

                If you knew the secrets to living
            life more fully, to knowing about
            the gift of the Catholic Church,
            baptism, the Eucharist wouldn't
            you spread it to others —

                We are commissioned in baptism
            to do this —

                God wrote the Blue Books because
            people aren't spreading the
            Good News — they, many, do not
            even recognize the gift of the
            Church themselves —               

                When someone is not open and
            they do not pray to the Holy Spirit
            how are they living their lives —
            Do you really live?

            Living is living in Him.

            How can you hold back to those
            who call and come to the site in
            Florida and ask —

                God has given us the Mighty
            Medicine — you say — "oh
            I'm shy" — God sends them to
            the Florida building, China,
            the phones, the internet —
            then they come and how do you
            witness to give them the
            Blue Books, the Rosary Book,
            why God gave us this mission.

                A person can live their
            whole life not living really
            happy lives — you hold
            the Mighty Medicine — Jesus
            is truly present in the Eucharist —
            God gives us the Church, but
            we are to witness with our lives,
            A person rooted in Jesus should
            be a witness to this great
            gift — but we can act not
            nice and call ourselves Christians —
            where we could have spread
            light we tell others by
            our unhappy lives things —
            God called us to be witnesses and
            spread the Good News —

                He commissioned us to do
            so. God commanded us to love
            Him and love each other —
            If we were joyous and holy we could
            act as an attraction for others
            to lead them to our faith —
            or we can help drive them away
            from the Christian faith —
            We are responsible for our actions —
            God gave us baptized Catholics
            this great gift of the Catholic
            Church, receiving the sacraments.

                Look at the man who never
            knew the cure to his problem —
            never loved — never had friends —
            never heard about the Catholic
            Church from us because we
            were too busy being angry
            from our past life, sitting on
            a pity pot — feeling sorry for
            ourselves — wanting others to
            give to us while we never gave
            to others — focused on ourselves and
            never happy when we were so
            richly blessed —

                What about those not
            even concerned with their
            spiritual life and God gives them a
            grace to come to the Florida
            building or call on the phone,
            the internet, the retreats
            and you are unhappy —
            focused on yourself —

                We are commissioned in baptism
            to spread the Good News —

                God wants all men to grow
            in their spiritual life and to
            go to heaven — It's about love —
            going out of ourselves and sharing
            the Good News — not being
            selfish and ungrateful and
            like big babies this Christmas
            wanting others to make us feel
            good —

                It's Jesus' birthday — you
            are His friend — think of the
            souls not even focused on
            Jesus this Christmas, can't
            you thank Jesus for all the
            Christmases you knew about
            Jesus and if we are baptized
            Catholics thank God for this
            gift, the Church — the
            sacraments — the fountain of His
            life.

                It's about love and giving —

                Christ came a baby in the
            manger — Christ gave Himself
            for His precious souls —

                How can we call ourselves
            Christian and be so selfish, sad
            and ungrateful

                Jesus is truly with us
            in the Eucharist — Jesus is
            the Savior

                God calls us to love —

                Think of the man who is not nice —
            he thinks nothing of his spiritual life —
            he feels empty inside — he is
            focused on his natural inclinations —
            he is selfish, jealous, greedy,
            he is lustful —

                As he lives more and more without
            God in his life he becomes
            more and more dark, angrier,
            We were created with a heart
            to love

                In the world today many are
            selfish and out for themselves —
            they can be more and more hostile
            and secular —

                Love brings us peace, joy,
            unity, happiness —

                If we love — people will
            love us, if we genuinely love others —
            without an interior selfish motive —
            When we love we bring the
            vision of Jesus into the world —

                We are to spread these prayers
            to help bring about the Reign
            of the Sacred Heart and Triumph
            of Mary's Immaculate Heart —
            Love does make the world go
            round — genuine love like
            Jesus wants —

                We live to help build the Kingdom
            of God — we do our actions
            for more than performance,
            but for unity and love — we
            act more like God wants — we can
            live for God.

Fr. Carter's Definition on Love

                God intends us to live in love
            to obey the commandments.

                The commandments are
            really living in love
            We are called by God to live
            lives of love —

                This era of love — the Reign
            of the Sacred Heart and Triumph of
            Mary's Heart is really living
            as God intends us to live —

John 14:21-31

Whoever holds to my commandments and keeps them is the one who loves me; and whoever loves me will be loved by my Father, and I shall love him and reveal myself to him.'

Judas-not Judas Iscariot-said to him, 'Lord, what has happened, that you intend to show yourself to us and not to the world?' Jesus replied:

Anyone who loves me will keep my word, and my Father will love him, and we shall come to him and make a home in him. Anyone who does not love me does not keep my words. And the word that you hear is not my own: it is the word of the Father who sent me. I have said these things to you while still with you; but the Paraclete, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in my name, will teach you everything and remind you of all I have said to you. Peace I bequeath to you, my own peace I give you, a peace which the world cannot give, this is my gift to you. Do not let your hearts be troubled or afraid. You heard me say: I am going away and shall return. If you loved me you would be glad that I am going to the Father, for the Father is greater than I. I have told you this now, before it happens, so that when it does happen you may believe. I shall not talk to you much longer, because the prince of this world is on his way. He has no power over me, but the world must recognise that I love the Father and that I act just as the Father commanded. Come now, let us go.

  Romans 8:5-9

Those who are living by their natural inclinations have their minds on the things human nature desires; those who live in the Spirit have their minds on spiritual things. And human nature has nothing to look forward to but death, while the Spirit looks forward to life and peace, because the outlook of disordered human nature is opposed to God, since it does not submit to God's Law, and indeed it cannot, and those who live by their natural inclinations can never be pleasing to God. You, however, live not by your natural inclinations, but by the Spirit, since the Spirit of God has made a home in you. Indeed, anyone who does not have the Spirit of Christ does not belong to him.

1 John 4: 7-11

My dear friends, let us love one another, since love is from God and everyone who loves is a child of God and knows God. Whoever fails to love does not know God, because God is love. This is the revelation of God's love for us, that God sent his only Son into the world that we might have life through him. Love consists in this: it is not we who loved God, but God loved us and sent his Son to expiate our sins. My dear friends, if God loved us so much, we too should love one another.

                God wants order

                God wants harmony

                Jesus shows us His Heart

                Mary shows us her heart

                Love is friendship with God —

                Love is friendship with each other

                Love is Selfless

1 John 4:17-21 

Love comes to its perfection in us when we can face the Day of Judgement fearlessly, because even in this world we have become as he is. In love there is no room for fear, but perfect love drives out fear, because fear implies punishment and no one who is afraid has come to perfection in love. Let us love, then, because he first loved us. Anyone who says 'I love God' and hates his brother, is a liar, since whoever does not love the brother whom he can see cannot love God whom he has not seen. Indeed this is the commandment we have received from him, that whoever loves God, must also love his brother.

Matthew 5: 1-12

Seeing the crowds, he went onto the mountain. And when he was
seated his disciples came to him. Then he began to speak. This is
what he taught them:

How blessed are the poor in spirit:
the kingdom of Heaven is theirs.
Blessed are the gentle:
they shall have the earth as inheritance.
Blessed are those who mourn:
they shall be comforted.
Blessed are those
   who hunger and thirst for uprightness:
they shall have their fill.
Blessed are the merciful:
they shall have mercy shown them.
Blessed are the pure in heart:
they shall see God.
Blessed are the peacemakers:
they shall be recognised
   as children of God.
Blessed are those who are persecuted
   in the cause of uprightness:
the kingdom of Heaven is theirs.

Blessed are you when people abuse you and persecute you and
speak all kinds of calumny against you falsely on my account.
Rejoice and be glad, for your reward will be great in heaven; this
is how they persecuted the prophets before you.

  John 17:11-26

I am no longer in the world, but they are in the world, and I am coming to you. Holy Father, keep those you have given me true to your name, so that they may be one like us. While I was with them, I kept those you had given me true to your name. I have watched over them and not one is lost except one who was destined to be lost, and this was to fulfil the scriptures. But now I am coming to you and I say these things in the world to share my joy with them to the full. I passed your word on to them, and the world hated them, because they belong to the world no more than I belong to the world. I am not asking you to remove them from the world, but to protect them from the Evil One. They do not belong to the world any more than I belong to the world. Consecrate them in the truth; your word is truth. As you sent me into the world, I have sent them into the world, and for their sake I consecrate myself so that they too may be consecrated in truth. I pray not only for these but also for those who through their teaching will come to believe in me. May they all be one, just as, Father, you are in me and I am in you, so that they also may be in us, so that the world may believe it was you who sent me. I have given them the glory you gave to me, that they may be one as we are one. With me in them and you in me, may they be so perfected in unity that the world will recognise that it was you who sent me and that you have loved them as you have loved me.

Father, I want those you have given me to be with me where I am, so that they may always see my glory which you have given me because you loved me before the foundation of the world. Father, Upright One, the world has not known you, but I have known you, and these have known that you have sent me. I have made your name known to them and will continue to make it known, so that the love with which you loved me may be in them, and so that I may be in them.

Matthew 6: 24

‘No one can be the slave of two masters: he will either hate the first and love the second, or be attached to the first and despise the second. You cannot be the slave both of God and of money. 

  From the Apostles of the Eucharistic Heart of Jesus Booklet

We Are Children of God

(Rom 8: 14-17)¹ All who are guided by the Spirit of God are sons of God; for what you received was not the spirit of slavery to bring you back into fear; you received the spirit of adoption, enabling us to cry out, "Abba, Father!" The Spirit himself joins with our spirit to bear witness that we are children of God. And if we are children, then we are heirs, heirs of God and joint heirs with Christ, provided that we share his suffering, so as to share his glory.

He Remains with Us, Truly Present

God sees us as one family, His beloved creatures. He loves us each with the deepest personal love. He sees us united. It is our love for one another that pleases Him. There is not division in God. He loves each of us and knows our uniqueness. He loves all of us as His creatures. We are all members of His holy family. He wants all His children to inherit the Kingdom of God.

I find refuge by dwelling within His most precious Heart. I feel the inner glow, the heat. I feel the calm beating of His heart. It is there I am wrapped in His burning love. It is there I am united deeply to my most beloved Father. It is there I am joined with the permeating, moving action of the Holy Spirit.

It is my refuge, in this dark and troubled world. It is my heaven on earth, to be joined in love with all He has created, to have perfect peace and know God's chamber of peace and love.

I see the darkness, the vileness of this world, and I go to His Heart. I see, with rose-colored glasses. I see as He wants us to see with eyes of love. I want to love and see as He sees. It is in this deepest chamber of His Heart that I have found the Kingdom of God on earth, for He has said, the Kingdom of God is within you. The Kingdom of God, our little heaven on earth, is in dwelling deeply within Their Hearts. In His Heart is love and in His Heart is peace, in His Heart we are all one as He intends us to be. "But to the man who told him this Jesus replied, 'Who is my mother? Who are my brothers?' And stretching out his hand towards his disciples he said, 'Here are my mother and my brothers. Anyone who does the will of my Father in heaven is my brother and sister and mother." (Matt: 12:48-50)1 We draw in our beloved sisters and brothers by the love that radiates from our eyes, our gentle touch, our loving concern.

Strip yourself of the attachments to this world. Find peace in the freedom of living according to His will, living *In Him, *in this magnificent Heart.

He came, He walked the earth, for love of us. He took on a human body. He gave His adorable Heart that we could live *In Him. He no longer walks this earth, He gives us Himself in the Holy Eucharist. He gives us a human *heart, pierced with a lance, crowned with thorns and holding the cross. The way to this fiery furnace, the way to life in Him, is through much suffering and pain. We identify with Him in all our actions, all our joys and sufferings, united to Him as we live our lives in Him. We walk the Passion, we feel the joys, the deep love in His Heart for His Mother, for all His beloved creatures. We carry out His life in our life.

I am Yours, my Lord. I love You with my whole heart, my whole soul, my whole being. I have found the Kingdom of God on this earth. I have found life in You. When I see the darkness in this troubled world, I go to the deepest, hottest chamber of Your Heart and I am bathed in your abundant love. I take with me my troubled brothers in my heart and I plead for their return to their God who is all worthy of all honor and love and adoration.

I am Yours, Lord, I consecrate my heart to You to live forever in this holy place. I want to die to all that is not of You, that I can be united in the deepest way to You, that my heart will know Your love, that as I live in this world I can truly say, "It is no longer I who live, but He who lives in me."

O, Most Sacred Heart of Jesus, I give You my all. I come to You surrounded by the pure and loving heart of Your Mother. I know You won't refuse me in my wretchedness when I come to You in the heart of Your beloved Mother.

The Holy Spirit permeates the very depth of my soul and I enter into the deepest chamber of His fiery Heart. It is there I feel so little, as a little child, and I unite to my most beloved Father. I feel in Your fiery heart the presence of God, Father, Son and Holy Spirit, in the deepest, whitest chamber, in the center of the deepest love. I unite with God and I know my dwelling in You is truly a little heaven on earth.

The Kingdom of God is at hand. There will be an era of peace. We will all be one in the Hearts of Jesus and Mary. We will be one happy family where there will only be love: love of God and love of one another.

And the city shone with the brightest light for within their hearts they knew the love of God and it radiated into the world. There was no longer darkness that covered the earth, but light, radiating from those dwelling within the Hearts of Jesus and Mary. And the star shone over His bed at Bethlehem. He is truly the light of the world and the light shone in the darkness and all who came to this light lived in the light and lived according to the light.

It is in this that we trust, that in all the darkness of the world that the light will shine when men are dwelling in the Hearts of Jesus and Mary.

And, He says: I am the way, the truth and the life. He who abides in me will have the light of life. He came, He was born a baby, He died on a cross, but as He hung on that cross on Calvary, He was the light that shone as the brightest light to the world, withered, beaten and bloodied. He was the brightest light in the darkened sky. It was through His death all men were promised a chance for real life, for eternal salvation.

And the light came forth from the tomb in power and glory, adorned in bright, glistening light. He stood before them with His glorified wounds: His pierced Heart of endless love and He gave them the newness of life-life in Him. The light shone in the darkness. He gave them a sharing in His Divine Life through Baptism and ascended into heaven to prepare a place for us, but He remained with us, truly present, in His Eucharistic Heart. He feeds us with His own Body and Blood. He gives us the Bread of Life. He is the Savior of the World and we live in newness of life because God first loved us!

- Rita Ring, February 23, 1996

 

 

 

 

Excerpt from Response to God's Love (excerpt)
    by Fr. Edward Carter, S.J.

                                  6 

                                  The Christian and Church
 

                                  God calls us to live the Christian existence, the spiritual life, within the framework of the Church that Jesus has established. This Church is a many-splendored reality; it has many different names, images, and dimensions that variously attest to and manifest this multifaceted richness. All of them, however, speak of one and the same reality; each in its own way emphasizes now this, now that, particular truth or truths of the Church's existence. Each of these dimensions or concepts of the Church has something to say to the individual Christian about his or her spiritual life. Let us briefly consider some of these facets.

       The Church is the Body of Christ. One of the truths that is emphasized by this concept is the idea of community. The communion that binds the members of the Church together is, in turn, connected with that wider idea of community that embraces the whole of mankind.

       The millions and millions of people the world over make up what might be called the world community. The members of this cosmic community are supposed to live in a basic love for one another, united in bonds of mutual support and interdependence. This is true because God has created persons as social beings. We are not intended to cut an isolated path through life. We are meant to walk hand in hand with each other, to live within a societal structure, to help others in many different ways. What is more, we must also realize that, in achieving our destiny, we receive much aid, support, and love from others. There are all too many striking examples of how the modern world has failed to live community—more than enough to make us agonize over man's inhumanity toward his fellow human beings. But there are also many beautiful and ongoing examples of how the world has succeeded in living community—enough to strengthen our belief in the basic goodness of the human heart.

       The leader in helping form a better community among the members of the human family is the Christian community, the Body of Christ. God has established the Church as a leaven for the development of a graced society of human beings. The bonds of union that hold the human race together have been strengthened by the redemptive work of Christ. Despite the fact that many do not realize it, there is only one fundamental community that embraces everybody—and it is Christic. The Christian community is, in turn, a great channel of grace that deepens this Christic image of the world society.

       If the Church is to be a proper leaven for the formation of a better world community, however, she herself has to progress in a sense of community. There must be a growing understanding of the truths and principles that pertain to Christian community, and a growing desire to explore practical ways to implement these principles.

       Throughout the course of salvation history, God has always communicated himself within the framework of community. In saying this, we are not maintaining that God does not communicate himself to individuals in a very intimate and personal manner that respects their uniqueness, their individuality. We are saying, however, that God communicates himself to a person according to his or her totality, and one dimension of this totality is the social aspect. God has respected this social dimension; in his self-communication he has called us together in religious community, or covenant. It seems that in our present age God is beckoning us to a deeper realization of these truths.

       The Christian community is a terrestrial reflection of the ultimate and absolute community—namely, the Trinity. In a special way, we are privileged to give witness to Trinitarian life, a life of divine intimacy and loving. From all eternity, the persons of the Trinity are united in the most intimate bonds of knowledge and love; these have also brought about creation and redemption.

       Grace, or the Christ-life, is a created participation in Trinitarian life. This Christ-life, consequently, calls us to a special existence of knowing and loving. Christian faith and love, which are created participations in the Trinity's knowing and loving, allow us to know and love God in a special manner. Faith and love also give us a new capacity to relate to both our fellow Christians and to all others as well.

       Because the life of the Trinity is person-centered, so must the life of the Christian community be person-centered. For many years, it seems, we were not sufficiently person-conscious; however, the theology that has emanated from Vatican II is helping to rectify this situation. In the pre-Vatican II Church, structures in the Church were occasionally treated as ends in themselves rather than as the means of serving the persons in the Church. Slowly but surely, structures in the Church are being renewed so that they might better serve their true purpose, which is to aid in the ongoing development of her members.

       The Christian community, in turn, develops when those who make up that community develop as authentic Christians. Just as each divine person contributes perfectly to the community life of the Trinity according to the perfect fullness of his personhood, so each Christian contributes to community life in proportion to the degree of his or her personal development.

       Authentic interpersonal relationships help to develop community. The Trinitarian community is a community of profound relationships. Because we reflect Trinitarian community, we are intended to have relationships not only with the persons of the Trinity, but likewise with one another. Authentic interpersonal relationships not only unite in a deeper knowledge and love the persons directly involved, they also make a person more capable of loving others more deeply and, therefore, more capable of deepening the bonds of total community. If a person is growing in the capacity to love his or her friends, for example, that person is concurrently growing in the capacity to also love others—both those who are members of the Church and those who are not.

       The concept of the Church as Body of Christ certainly emphasizes the sense of corporateness that should permeate the consciousness of the Church's members. We must think in terms of both what is good for the entire Church and, through this Church, what is good for the total human community. Even when we disagree among ourselves, we do so not because we want to glory in having the upper hand, but because we believe that to disagree here and now is necessary so that the truth might better emerge for the good of the community. St. Paul speaks to us about this sense of corporateness: "In the name of the encouragement you owe me in Christ, in the name of the solace that love can give, of fellowship in spirit, compassion, and pity, I beg you: make my joy complete by your unanimity, possessing the one love, united in spirit and ideals. Never act out of rivalry or conceit; rather, let all parties think humbly of others as superior to themselves, each of you looking to others' interests rather than his own" (Phil 2:1-4).

       In our sense of corporateness, that is, motivated by a common purpose and a common good, we should learn to rejoice in the gifts and the achievements of others. These are not isolated gifts and achievements; rather, they redound to the good of the whole body. We all probably know of numerous instances of jealousy and a false sense of competition that have hindered the work of Christ. In the long run, however, if the work of Christ is being accomplished, and if I am making an effort to do my part, does it really matter whether I or someone else is responsible for this or that particular accomplishment? Does it matter whether this or that group or organization receives credit? St. Paul again has words for us: "After all, who is Apollos? And who is Paul? Simply ministers through whom you became believers, each of them doing only what the Lord assigned him. I planted the seed and Apollos watered it, but God made it grow. This means that neither he who plants nor he who waters is of any special account, only God, who gives the growth. He who plants and he who waters work to the same end" (1 Cor 3:5-8).

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