When my heart is troubled, I tell myself, “It’s OK, God can do anything he wants!” As I watch the events of the world unfold around me and I look at the number of folks hurting and suffering, I find myself repeating that line often.
As the Diocese of Pueblo becomes the Diocese of the Little Way, I have taken a special interest in St. Thérèse of Lisieux, and I want to share a truly wonderful and joyful occurrence I was blessed with shortly after praying the “My Novena Rose Prayer.”
The dictionary defines happy as feeling or showing pleasure or contentment. I want to clarify this because of that word “feeling” in the middle of the definition. Often, that is where I get stuck.
We see our deacons up on the altar, but permanent deacons, like Deacon Robert Sanchez, perform a much more extensive ministry unique to God’s plan for each of them as disciples of Jesus.