Get up at the crack of dawn. Labor day and night. Keep your nose to the grindstone. Never let up. Tell people the main messages of the Gospels otherwise they won’t have a clue what is going on and what you are up to. If the people don’t know the Gospels you are to blame. So let’s get on with our job.

In the Catholic Church there are some orders. They are full time prayers. They get up at the crack of the dawn and they are down on their hunkers praying away like mad, saying the Rosaries, reciting the breviary, following the liturgy of the Church, contemplating, meditating, reciting, etc. So their minds are completely engrossed in heavenly things.

Jesus had the whole thing weighed up. He looked at things through the eyes of eternity. We are so shortsighted. Only God can see the whole picture.

Kneeling there praying to an invisible god. You must be joking. Who do you think I am? Am I a loony? You wouldn’t catch me dead doing like that. I wouldn’t dreamed of doing anything like that. I depend on myself. I am really something.

Wonder of wonders! Who could have imagined? Five pieces of bread fed more than ten thousand people. And the Gospel says there were five thousand men. It’s very difficult to believe five loaves and two fish could feed more than ten thousand people.

He looks after us 24 hours a day. He ensures that our hearts beat and the blood courses through the veins. He is looking after us like a hen looking after her chicks. He loves us incessantly, continuously regardless of what we do. We can be as evil as Hitler. But we just have to say, “God I am sorry.” and he embraces us.

Are you a Martha or are you a Mary? In this world we have many different types of people. What kind of type is Martha? Martha is somebody who really gets down to it. If there is a job to be done she will be there. And she happened to look through the door.Ant there was Mary sitting at the feet of Jesus with adoring eyes looking into his face. She was drinking it all up. She memorized every word that he said.

Our mortal bodies will die but our glorified bodies will live forever. Just imagine how beautiful our spiritual bodies would be. Not a slightest trace of imperfection, more beautiful than Mona Lisa, more beautiful than anybody on earth. If anybody could see our glorified bodies they would bow down and worship us.

Listen to the word of God. Our whole lives should be devoted to this task. If we put our hands to the plow we should not look back.

How could God transform some simple country bumpkins into the heroes of history? By fire and blood. What is the fire? The fire is the Holy Spirit. What is the blood? The blood is the blood that Jesus shed on the cross to wash away our sins. Jesus chose the 12 apostles, and they were a motley bunch. He managed to blend them and made them into one of the greatest forces of history of mankind, using blood and fire.