Here is an essential image which St. John Neumann proclaimed the following in the 19th century while he served God in the United States of America. He is the first canonized saint who was a bishop in our country, and what he wrote back then, continues to ring us today in our missions:
“Everyone who breathes, high and low, educated and ignorant, young and old, man and woman, has a mission, has a work. We are not sent into this world for nothing; we are not born at random; we are not here, that we may go to bed at night, and get up in the morning, toil for our bread, eat and drink, laugh and joke, sin when we have a mind, and reform when we are tired of sinning, rear a family and die. God sees every one of us; He creates every soul, . . . for a purpose. He needs, He deigns to need, every one of us. He has an end for each of us; we are all equal in His sight, and we are placed in our different ranks and stations, not to get what we can out of them for ourselves, but to labor in them for Him. As Christ has His work, we too have ours; as He rejoiced to do His work, we must rejoice in ours also” (St. John Neumann, from the sermon: “God’s Will the End of Life”).
What inspires me, is that this saint was a bishop in Philadelphia, which today is the center of another sexual abuse scandal in Pennsylvania.
How is each of us called to move forward to support victims from sexual abuse, follow God’s will and unite with God’s Kingdom on earth? Do it!
Finally, I believe what was said in the movie Dark Knight: “The night is darkest just before the dawn.” May our Catholic Church in the United States work together in the darkness to serve the victims and God before the new dawn of Jesus Christ. Once again, may our Church be purified and end the sexual abuse scandals in our country.
God Bless!
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