By Msgr. Charles Pope - Most of us are familiar with this famous passage from the Gospel of John: For God so loved the world that he gave us his only begotten Son, that whosoever believes in him might not perish but might have everlasting life(John 3:16). For many people it serves as a kind of mini-gospel… There is something of that same quality in St. Paul’s beautiful summary of salvation and of the gospel message: For we were, by nature, children of wrath, like the others… (Ephesians 2:3-5).