By Fr. Jerry Pokorsky: Tangible Lifelines to God’s Strategic Plan for Our Salvation

By Fr. Jerry Pokorsky, Catholic Culture, Nov 27, 2023

Fr. Jerry Pokorsky is a priest of the Diocese of Arlington who has also served as a financial administrator in the Diocese of Lincoln. Trained in business and accounting, he also holds a Master of Divinity and a Master’s in moral theology….

Investment managers ask a simple and beneficial strategic question with attention-grabbing passion: “Will you have enough money for retirement?” The managers provide reasonable investment advice (but generally avoid the unpleasantries of predicting death according to the actuarial tables). We could use the urgent precision of goal-oriented investment advisors when we direct our attention to our heavenly destiny.

We need God’s revelation to ensure that our strategic plan matches His. We also need to identify and defeat the strategy of our adversary, the Devil. The marital embrace in matrimony and the laying on of the hands in ordination represent the natural and sacramental lifelines to God’s strategic plan to accomplish our salvation. …