
Destiny or Chance?
COMMENTARY: Destiny is filled with both meaning and mystery. Chance shuts the door and causes life to fall backwards into a realm of meaninglessness.
COMMENTARY: Destiny is filled with both meaning and mystery. Chance shuts the door and causes life to fall backwards into a realm of meaninglessness.
‘Mary, your Son turned water into wine,’ my friend pleaded. ‘I beg you to ask him to heal John!’
‘Chance,’ says Anatole France, ‘is only the pseudonym God uses when he doesn’t want to sign his name’
“The witness of Scripture is unanimous that the solicitude of divine providence is concrete and immediate; God cares for all, from the least things to the great events of the world and its history. The sacred books powerfully affirm God's absolute sovereignty over the course of events …” (CCC 303)
“In the designs of Providence, there are no mere coincidences” — Pope St. John Paul II
Though it never mentions the word ‘Providence,’ Divine Providence is what ‘It’s a Wonderful Life’ is all about.
COMMENTARY: The Holy Father turns 85 today, becoming only the seventh pope to serve in office at that age.
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