Take courage! I have overcome the wolrd.
The attack on Pearl Harbour in 1941 led the U.S. to imprison 100,000 citizens of Japanese descent.
Two of these citizens were Carole and Jim. They had a little girl whose feet twisted inward. Hard work corrected the defect so that by age six she was walking well.
To strengthen the little girl's legs, Carole enrolled her in an ice-skating class. Both would rise at 4 a.m. daily to get to the rink and do the lessons and the workouts before school. The girl developed into a fine figure skater. In 1992 Carole and Jim Yamaguchi watched their daughter, Kristi, win the gold medal in figure skating at the Winter Olympics in Canada.
Jesus' words today inspire confidence: «Courage! I have overcome the world» (Jn 16:33), that is, through his Passion, Death and Resurrection, He has attained the eternal life, life with nothing to stop it, a limitless life because it has overcome all limits and all difficulties.
Two of these citizens were Carole and Jim. They had a little girl whose feet twisted inward. Hard work corrected the defect so that by age six she was walking well.
To strengthen the little girl's legs, Carole enrolled her in an ice-skating class. Both would rise at 4 a.m. daily to get to the rink and do the lessons and the workouts before school. The girl developed into a fine figure skater. In 1992 Carole and Jim Yamaguchi watched their daughter, Kristi, win the gold medal in figure skating at the Winter Olympics in Canada.
Jesus' words today inspire confidence: «Courage! I have overcome the world» (Jn 16:33), that is, through his Passion, Death and Resurrection, He has attained the eternal life, life with nothing to stop it, a limitless life because it has overcome all limits and all difficulties.
We, the followers of Christ, can overcome these difficulties too, as He did, in spite of the fact we may have to go throughout our life through many deaths and resurrections, never wanted but certainly assumed by the very Paschal Mystery of Christ. For “deaths” indeed are, losing a friend, parting with a beloved person, the failure of a project or the limitations or own human weakness impose upon us…
But «in all these things we are more than conquerors through him who loved us» (Rm 8:37). Let us be witnesses to God's love, because He has, with us, «done great things» (Lk 1:49) and has given us his help to overcome all difficulties, even death, because Christ is sending us the Holy Spirit.
