All that we have is a total gift: "Without cost you have received: without cost you are to give." (Matthew 10:8)
At our baptism we became sons and daughters of Christ. Through that sacrament and Confirmation we are challenged to carry out His mission. In Matthew 10, Christ spells out clearly what we are to do and that we have His assurance that He is always with us.
If only all of us understood that challenge, given in love, by Love Himself!
How often, instead, we hear the comments such as, "I don't get anything out of going to Mass." It is a spillover from our secular society where so often we are looking for rewards without putting out any effort .
Persons speaking in that manner have yet to grasp the tremendous gifts that we have been given, the gifts of faith and redemption, given by God Himself from the Cross. Christ doesn't force Himself on anyone, but He is always at the door of our souls, waiting in love for us to give Him some time and space in our hearts.
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