By Msgr. Charles Pope - The Lord has a paradoxical answer for us who labor and are heavenly burdened. He tells us to take the yoke and burden that He has for us. The yoke is a symbol for the cross, and like most yokes, it connects us with another—the Lord! To be sure, God does have a yoke for us. We do need purification and discipline. However, the yoke He has for us is “easy.”
By Joe Bukuras, CNA - Calls for prayer and fasting have once again sounded from the Louisiana Governor’s office as Covid-19 continues to endanger lives in the state... “I believe very strongly in the power of prayer, and there are thousands of people right now in Louisiana who need to be lifted up in prayer,” Gov. John Bel Edwards, D, said in an Aug. 6 statement. “So I hope you will join your prayers to mine for healing and protection.”
By Taynia-Renee Laframboise, The Catholic Thing - But we ourselves must learn from history. By seeing the world fail to unite against (Hitler) (in an effort that would have cost very little), he was emboldened to expand his evil machinations and genocidal plans across Europe. Yes, Hitler was eventually defeated, but at great cost. And far too late. Moved with remorse, the world solemnly swore “never again.”
Patriot Post - “To cherish and stimulate the activity of the human mind, by multiplying the objects of enterprise, is not among the least considerable of the expedients, by which the wealth of a nation may be promoted.” —Alexander Hamilton (1791)