Wednesday 2 February 2022

Pope Benedict xvi On God's Will for Our Life

"Every day in the prayer of the Our Father we ask the Lord:

“thy will be done, on earth as it is in heaven” (Mt 6:10).

In other words we recognize that there is a will of God with us and for us, a will of God for our life that must become every day, increasingly, the reference of our willing and of our being; we recognize moreover that “heaven” is where God’s will is done and where the “earth” becomes “heaven”, a place where love, goodness, truth and divine beauty are present, only if, on earth, God’s will is done."


How can we build practical links in our lives between the Colwelian commitment to say yes and thank you to the Lord, and what Pope Benedict calls the “will of God for our life that must become […] the reference of our willing and of our being”?


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