Monday Musings - Stop Looking Elsewhere

[I read these words of wisdom penned by Father Paul  D. Scalia yesterday and knew immediately that they had to be shared:]

"Sanctity isn't happening somewhere else. It is found in the here and now, in the duty of the moment, in being present to ourselves, to God and to others...

Our salvation - yours and mine - does not happen out there, in some other place or in someone else's life. It doesn't occur in the  media or latest gossip, online or otherwise. It doesn't depend on our knowing the latest political intrigue or celebrity news. It depends on our personal and interior adherence to the Lord. 

But we love to be distracted because this reality can be daunting. We fear that God is too close, too personal. Too local. So we distract ourselves by looking elsewhere, to other people, places and things. But salvation doesn't happen somewhere else. It happens locally, where we are. And we shouldn't chose to be anywhere else."

(Excerpted from The Catholic Thing, March 23, 2025)