
God’s Providential Plan for Us Embraces Everything We Do — Even Politics
God’s purposes are often unknowable by us, but there’s no question that he has a plan.
God’s purposes are often unknowable by us, but there’s no question that he has a plan.
Yes, Our Lady visited my Benedictine cell on Oct. 4, 2010. She was escorting me to my earthly mother, who was waiting for me outside the cloister doors.
The island’s patroness is a striking reminder of the Lord’s aid amid hardships.
God is always with us. We just have to surrender to him.
COMMENTARY: Destiny is filled with both meaning and mystery. Chance shuts the door and causes life to fall backwards into a realm of meaninglessness.
‘Mary, your Son turned water into wine,’ my friend pleaded. ‘I beg you to ask him to heal John!’
‘Chance,’ says Anatole France, ‘is only the pseudonym God uses when he doesn’t want to sign his name’
“The witness of Scripture is unanimous that the solicitude of divine providence is concrete and immediate; God cares for all, from the least things to the great events of the world and its history. The sacred books powerfully affirm God's absolute sovereignty over the course of events …” (CCC 303)
“In the designs of Providence, there are no mere coincidences” — Pope St. John Paul II
Though it never mentions the word ‘Providence,’ Divine Providence is what ‘It’s a Wonderful Life’ is all about.
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