Again, from our New Testament reading, from Romans: ‘None of us lives to himself, and none of us dies to himself. If we live, we live to the Lord, and if we die, we die to the Lord; so then, whether we live or whether we die, we are the Lord’s’.

St John Henry Newman, recently declared a Doctor of the Church, penned these words: ‘Let us put ourselves into His hands, and not be startled though He leads us by a strange way, a mirabilis via, as the Church speaks. Let us be sure He will lead us right, that He will bring us to that which is, not indeed what we think best, nor what is best for another, but what is best for us’.

We are the Lord’s; and He will do what is best for us, if we only allow Him and do not trust in our own way. May He bless you and take care of you this day.