Lenten Reflection Series, 31 March 2009

TRUST

"Angelo was a cheerful and naturally religious boy who was delighted when his normally reserved father hoisted him on his shoulders to get a glimpse of a church procession in a nearby town. He recalled this incident when, as Pope John XXIII, he was first carried into St. Peter's Basilica on his grand seda gestatoria, the portable papal throne. 'Once again I am being carried . . . . More than seventy years ago I was carried on the shoulders of my father at Ponte San Pietro. . . . The secret of life is to let oneself be carried by God and so carry Him to others."

--James Martin, SJ