"Some of you might remember Frank Sheed. He was a great twentieth-century Catholic apologist who once said that most of us have mostly worldly minds with a few Catholic patches. He said that in the 1960s! I confess that I have a mostly worldly mind. I know that. I pray an hour every morning in front of the Blessed Sacrament. I soak daily in Scripture. As a priest, I talk about Jesus more or less all day long. But if you were to add up the amount of time that I spend praying and reading the Word of God versus listening to the radio, watching movies, reading the news, and all sorts of other things, it’s not a one-to-one ratio. It’s unfortunately not even close! What’s yours like? Is it any wonder, then, that we often feel the way we do? That we get unnerved the way we do by what we see all around us? That we’re wondering what the heck is happening in the country, in the world, and in the Church?"
-Unshakeable Hope in the Midst of the Storm, 19
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