St. Patrick's Parish

In her address to all the leaders gathered at the annual National Prayer Breakfast in Washington DC in 1994, Mother Teresa asked this question: Do you give until it hurts? She said this 8 times throughout her speech. She was drawing on the fundamental law of Christian life. The law is that the only way to gain life is to give it away. Mother Teresa was an icon of this kind of giving, this kind of love, this kind of life. In the Gospel today John states that “having loved his own who were in the world, Jesus loved them to the end.” Jesus loved to the end!! There was nothing left of himself when Jesus in his humanity took his last breath on the Cross. 
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