About my Father's Business
Young Jesus, beginning His Father's work I was heartened this week to see an article about Pope Leo’s visit to Spain, where he was received by an impressive 1.2 million people in Madrid on Sunday - the largest crowd he has yet encountered. In his message to the Spanish people, he encouraged them to “be brought out of our selfishness and indifference, of a comfortable, private faith…and to welcome His presence which transforms us and makes us builders of a new world.” “God is a real presence, and we too are called to be present in the realities and challenges of society, not shying away, but personally committing ourselves to the building of the common good.” A powerful, Catholic message - at least by the dictionary definition of the word Catholic, meaning universal, or pertaining to the whole. This sentiment is similar to an excerpt in the final chapter in the Autobiography, whereby Yogananda wrote, “ Beyond all doubt it is pleasing to the Lord when His earth-ch...