“In This Supreme
Moment Of Need For The Church, The One Who Should Speak Will Fall
Silent”!
(Our Lady of Good
Success in Quito, Ecuador, on January 20, 1610).
Dear Friends,
My reflection for this
month is an article that I recently published on my blog:
“The False Pope Will
Fall Silent”
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An Experience of Life:
Attracted by
the shop windows and with some planning to revamp my wardrobe (I have
to be dressed well, both for work and because I like to dress well),
I was preparing to enter the store to buy two pairs of name-brand
shoes, one pair to wear with my brown outfit and the other with my
grey outfit.
Suddenly, I
remembered a request for help that I read about in the latest issue
of a Catholic magazine that I always read: a person described the
poor conditions in which he lived along with his family, asking for
help. His suffering for a moment became my suffering. I had talked
about this with my wife, and vaguely between us we had considered to
help out. I am wealthy and so my comfortable life continues, full of
certainty, until the day that I looked in that shop window.
As I was
about to enter, a sense of shame came over me. I said so myself, here
you are now ready to spend only for your vanity a certain amount of
money which could be of use to that family…
Instead of
entering the store, I called my wife on the phone. We decided to
transfer the money that was equal to the cost of the two pairs of
shoes in the window, to that person, by way of the magazine ‘The
Living City’. I did not buy the shoes.
C.D., Italia
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Father Joseph Dwight
