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Make Everything a Sacrifice to Sanctify the World, by Dr. R. Jared Staudt  – Brown Pelican Society of Lousiana

Make Everything a Sacrifice to Sanctify the World, by Dr. R. Jared Staudt 

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By Dr. R. Jared Staudt, Catholic World Report, September 26, 2024

R. Jared Staudt PhD, serves as Director of Content for Exodus 90 and as an instructor for the lay division of St. John Vianney Seminary. He is author of Words Made Flesh: The Sacramental Mission of Catholic Education (CUA Press, 2024), How the Eucharist Can Save Civilization (TAN), Restoring Humanity: Essays on the Evangelization of Culture (Divine Providence Press)  ….

When things are offered to God, they reach their true goal, but when we turn them toward us, we throw a monkey wrench into the right working of the universe–and our souls.

“Make everything you can a sacrifice.”—The Angel of Portugal to the three Fatima children

Sacrifice stands before us as the hidden key to life. The word itself may sound frightening, conjuring images of blood, destruction and perhaps an overly demanding God who wants us to give up the things we enjoy. Nonetheless, it points us to our true vocation—‘to make holy.’ The entire cosmos was created for sacrifice—to be made holy—and God has placed us within it to ensure this happens. The universe exists to glorify God as a temple to his honor, and he has established human beings as priests to order all things to him within it.

God left the work of creation intentionally incomplete, placing it into the hands of man and woman as his stewards who must bring the world to its perfection …

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