Sr. Gail’s Reflections

February 2012 Quote and Reflection

“We have an awesome dignity. We are ‘sparks’ of the divine. We are ‘other Christs.’ We are sons and daughters of God, and we are temples of the Holy Spirit. No wonder one of the early fathers of the Church exclaimed, ‘Christian, behold your dignity!’”

Fr. Bill McCarthy, MSA

A Personal Relationship with Jesus, My Father’s House

Reflection

As we come to the end of January 2012, we are called to reflect on the profound revelation of who we are.  Just this past week close to 500,000 men, women, children, students, clergy, and religious participated in the March for Life in Washington D.C. There were other marches and rallies across the country .   At that same time we celebrated, as we do every year, the World-wide Week of Christian Unity.  “Father, I pray that they all may be one, as you are in me and I in Thee.  May they all be one,” Jesus prayed on the eve of His Passion.  There is such strength in our unity, especially when it is expressed for the most vulnerable.

It is so moving for me to see hundreds of thousands living out their Christian dignity and witnessing to the dignity of the unborn and their God-given right to life.  How precious the life of each and every one of us, how precious the lives of our children in the eyes of God. What would we not do to protect and defend those lives?  May we each grow ever more in the awareness of who we are in Christ Jesus.  May we ever more see one another as Jesus sees us.  May we come to know ourselves in Jesus.  “I have called you by name.  You are mine,” he says to us through the prophet Isaiah.  He has a future and a hope for each one of us in an eternity with him. May the deep heart knowledge of our dignity draw us ever more into the profound unity that Jesus prayed for with one another.