March 10

FRATERNITY goes beyond my own family and friends

Fishermen throw their nets out in the lake and catch all kinds of fish.  When the net is full, they pull it to shore and sit down to divide the fish.  The good ones go into the buckets, the worthless ones are thrown away.  It will be like this at the end of the age.  ~ Matthew 13:47-49

Albert Schweitzer was a concert pianist who gave up his career in music to become a doctor and missionary to Africa. 
He once said, “It’s not enough to say, “I’m a good father.  I’m a good husband.”…  You must do something… for those who have need of help, something for which you get no pay but the privilege of doing it.  For remember, you don’t live in a world all your own.  Your brothers and sisters are here too.”  ~ Mark Link, S.J.

Do you count your fraternal brothers in your circle of friends?

Yours are the only hands with which God can do his work…  Yours are the only eyes through which God’s compassion can shine upon a troubled world.  ~ Saint Teresa of Avila