Thank God Ahead of Time
"For Solanus," Crosby writes, "knowing God demanded a threefold response: appreciation, love, and service. Solanus wrote that everyone's purpose as a rational creature is to recognize and to know his Creator, so as to be able, intelligently to love him, confidently to hope in him, and gratefully to serve him."
Besides the gift of healing which brought about happiness to many, Solanus Casey also used his gift of prophecy to encourage and challenge and to bring back hope to others. But the humble Capuchin's greatest gift was charity-charity that not only characterized his happy relationship with God but that overflowed in the warm, caring, fraternal, and even humorous way he related to his neighbor.
| Description | Appointed by the Vatican as the "External Collaborator to the Relator" for the cause of canonization of Capuchin Father Solanus Casey, the first man born in the United States to be declared "Venerable" by the Catholic Church, Michael Crosby give us an inspiring and insightful story of one person's unswerving faith in God's abiding presence throughout the universe. "For Solanus," Crosby writes, "knowing God demanded a threefold response: appreciation, love, and service. Solanus wrote that everyone's purpose as a rational creature is to recognize and to know his Creator, so as to be able, intelligently to love him, confidently to hope in him, and gratefully to serve him." Besides the gift of healing which brought about happiness to many, Solanus Casey also used his gift of prophecy to encourage and challenge and to bring back hope to others. But the humble Capuchin's greatest gift was charity-charity that not only characterized his happy relationship with God but that overflowed in the warm, caring, fraternal, and even humorous way he related to his neighbor. |
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