My motto “Be happily and uncomplicatedly Catholic.”
Michael J. Sheehan Archbishop of Santa Fe
THANK YOU
(Submitted by Catherine Grant)
- If you woke up this morning with more health than illness…you are more blessed than the million who will not survive the week.
- If you have never experienced the danger of battle, the loneliness of imprisonment, the agony of torture, or the pangs of starvation—you are ahead of 500 million people in the world.
- If you can attend a church meeting without fear of harassment, arrest, torture or
death…you are more blessed than three billion people in the world. (In Afghanistan, there are no places for Christian worship.) - If you have food in the refrigerator, clothes on your back, a roof overhead and a place to sleep…you are richer than 75% of those in this world.
- If you have money in the bank, in your wallet, and spare change in a dish somewhere…you are among the top 8% of the world’s wealthy.
- If you parents are still alive and still married…you are very rare, even in the United States.
- If you hold up your head with a smile and are truly thankful…you are blessed because the majority of us can, but most do not.
- If you can hold someone’s hand, hug them or even touch them on the shoulder…you are blessed because you can offer healing touch.
- If you can read this…you are more blessed than 171 million blind people in the world.
- (Send your comments for Catherine, aljagoe@comcast.net)
Recommended readings 
- “Religious Freedom” in March First Things.
- “The Culture War & The Catholic Church” in April New Oxford Review
- “A Year In the Promised Land” in May USCatholic
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The Shooting Shepherds….All priests are from the Diocese of Fargo!
