Want To "Save a Soul Today"?
When was the last time the first thought that came into your mind as you got up to enjoy the gift of another day was “Let me save a soul today?” For most of us, my educated guess would be, either not recently or never. Have you heard a homily within the past year urging you to pray for the salvation of your soul and/or the souls of your loved ones and friends? - not so much. Do you ever think of where the souls of the 6,815 people (as estimated by the CIA World Factbook) who die on average everyday in this country have gone? Probably not! Odd (and troubling) isn’t it, that even though the primary mission of the Catholic Church is to save souls, we rarely hear or think about that subject? To paraphrase the great wisdom of Servant of God Madeleine Delbrel: how then can we desire to be saved, if we do not know we are lost? For lots of reasons, too many Catholics have become quite complacent or even unconcerned ...