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1/3/26 Love Waits · Omnia Christus

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  SPEAKER_00: I often have people complain,
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  SPEAKER_00: tell me,
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  SPEAKER_00: observe that they have family members who are not practicing the faith and
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  SPEAKER_00: that that's difficult for them,
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  SPEAKER_00: that's disturbing for them, that's hard to accept or understand.
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  SPEAKER_00: And I think the question that we have to ask ourselves is not really
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  SPEAKER_00: about our family members' practice of the faith, but it's about our own.
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  SPEAKER_00: You know,
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  SPEAKER_00: not whether so-and-so is a Catholic,
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  SPEAKER_00: is a Christian, whatever, but really, what does the faith mean to me?
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  SPEAKER_00: Am I a Christian?
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  SPEAKER_00: Am I truly practicing the faith?
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  SPEAKER_00: Because that's really the best thing that we can do for other people.
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  SPEAKER_00: If we hope for other people to grow in their practice of the faith,
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  SPEAKER_00: the best thing that we can do is to practice the faith fully ourselves.
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  SPEAKER_00: And maybe not so much for you,
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  SPEAKER_00: because here you are at Daily Mass,
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  SPEAKER_00: but for many Catholics,
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  SPEAKER_00: the practice of the faith is something that you do for an hour on Sunday.
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  SPEAKER_00: And the rest of the week, you go about your day.
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  SPEAKER_00: And I'm a good Catholic.
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  SPEAKER_00: I don't hurt anybody.
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  SPEAKER_00: I try to be honest.
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  SPEAKER_00: I go to church.
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  SPEAKER_00: I pay my time.
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  SPEAKER_00: But what more is necessary?
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  SPEAKER_00: What more could I do?
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  SPEAKER_00: I'm doing all the things.
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  SPEAKER_00: And what Christ is observing in this gospel is that there is much more that we could be doing.
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  SPEAKER_00: That the practice of the faith demands our entire life, our entire dedication.
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  SPEAKER_00: It needs to touch every moment of our existence.
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  SPEAKER_00: Because in this gospel we have these different people and their problem is
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  SPEAKER_00: that they are distracted with other things.
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  SPEAKER_00: They're not bad people.
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  SPEAKER_00: But they're focused on other things.
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  SPEAKER_00: And that can happen so easily to us that other things come into our hearts
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  SPEAKER_00: and crowd out the presence of God.
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  SPEAKER_00: And the practice of the presence of God should be the most important thing in our lives.
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  SPEAKER_00: More important than money.
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  SPEAKER_00: More important than our houses.
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  SPEAKER_00: More important than our country.
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  SPEAKER_00: More important than politics.
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  SPEAKER_00: More important than any of those other things.
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  SPEAKER_00: It should be the thing that I think about all the time that every day I'm working on.
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  SPEAKER_00: Every moment I have a chance.
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  SPEAKER_00: Offering everything that I do up, making every moment of my life into a part of that.
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  SPEAKER_00: That is what the practice of the faith looks like.
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  SPEAKER_00: And that's something that we all need to do more.
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  SPEAKER_00: And if we do that,
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  SPEAKER_00: I guarantee you that God will use you to touch the lives of those
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  SPEAKER_00: who have not encountered God in the same way.