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He Knows What He Is About

This Rock Volume 17, Number 11   November 2006     Reasons for Hope By Cherie Peacock   Letters   Lead, Kindly Light: John Henry Cardinal Newman at Littlemore By Joanna Bogle   He Knows What He Is About   Seven Things Lay People Wish Their Priests Knew By Robert P. Lockwood   Read Them For Goodness Sake By Marcellino D'Ambrosio   Name that Document   Where to Find Them   Why I Choose Chesterton By Mark P. Shea   Scrupulosity: The Occupational Hazard of the Catholic Moral Life By Mark Lowery   What Do Material and Formal Mean?   Further Reading Resources on scrupulosity   Damascus Road Led Where I Did Not Want to Go: My Journey to the Catholic Church By Jennifer Taylor   By the Book You Can't Get Past this Rock By Tim Staples   Truth Be Told A Pius Legend By Robert P. Lockwood   Up a Notch Celtic Coptic Anglicans? A Modern Myth to Dodge the Authority of Rome By Dwight Longenecker   Quick Questions   Last Writes By Karl Keating    Subscribe    Permissions

God has created me to do Him some definite service; He has committed some work to me which he has not committed to another. I have my mission—I may never know it in this life, but I shall be told it in the next. I am a link in a chain, a bond of connection between persons. He has not created me for naught. I shall do good, I shall do His work; I shall be an angel of peace, a preacher of truth in my own place, while not intending it, if I do but keep His commandments and serve Him in my calling. Therefore, I will trust Him. Whatever, wherever I am. I can never be thrown away. If I am in sickness, my sickness may serve Him; in perplexity, my perplexity may serve Him. He does nothing in vain. He knows what He is about. He may take away my friends, He may throw me among strangers, He may make me feel desolate, make my spirits sink, hide my future from me—still He knows what He is about.
—Prayer of John Henry Cardinal Newman