Episode 293 - Together, Toward the One
XXIII Sunday after Pentecost
Lorica · Fr. Patrick Cardine
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Show Notes
There is no such thing as a solitary salvation. St. Paul says, “Imitate me,” not in pride, but in witness — for he himself is imitating Christ, and calls us to do the same, not alone, but together. The Church is not a scattered people with private beliefs. It is a body, moving as one, conformed together in love.
This means setting aside the constant itch of opinion, trading cleverness for obedience, and joining the life of Christ already at work in our midst. Salvation is not received in isolation — it is revealed in our life together. The more we insist on being our own, the more we estrange ourselves from the joy of being His.
We are not drawn upward by ideas alone, but by love made visible in the lives around us — a people made one not by preference, but by peace. Each of us, all of us, turning as one toward the Shepherd’s voice.