St. Paul Intercession

They are the ministers of Christ (I speak as one less wise): I am more; in many more labors, in prison more frequently; in stripe above measure; in death often. Of the Jews five times did I receive forty stripes save one. Thrice I was beaten with rods, once I was stoned; thrice I suffered shipwreck; a night and a day I was in the depth of the sea. In journeyings often, in perils of waters, in the city, in perils in the wilderness, in perils of the sea, in perils from false brethren: In labors and painfulness, in much watchings, in hunger and thirst, in fastings often, in cold and nakedness: Besides those things which are without; my daily instance the solicitude for all the churches (2Cor11:23-28)

St. Paul relates the hardships he has undergone to evangelize. He reminds us that he is an instrument of the Lord who lives in him. So, too, our hardships are an important part of the assault against the paganism of this world. We consecrate everything because Our Lord so wills in order to give honor and glory to God who is the foundation and essence of all that is good, pure and holy. All praise and honor to Jesus Christ, our Savior. The life we have in the Lord we recognize something totally beyond our merit. We only listen to the Spirit who confers life on us continually through the most powerful intercession of the Blessed Mother. If we keep that fixed in our hearts through divine grace we never have to worry (didn't St. Pio say so?) about any crisis in our life or in our parish.

Praised be Jesus Christ!
Now and Forever.
Fr. Jerome Charles Romanowski