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In his September 7th general audience, Pope Francis offered the following. \u201cThere is a history that precedes one who discerns, a history that is indispensable to know, because discernment is not a sort of oracle or fatalism, or something from a laboratory, like casting one\u2019s lot on two possibilities. The great questions arise when we have already travelled a stretch of the road in life, and it is to that journey that we must return in order to understand what we are looking for.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
With this statement, Pope Francis wrote the introduction to the Powerful Question retreat in Petoskey on October 14-16th . We will be doing just what he suggests and in doing so find the purpose we were born to serve.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
There are a few openings left. But act soon before the retreat is filled.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
As I drove the five hours \u201cdownstate\u201d from my home in the Upper Peninsula I thought about the apostles and how they were sent to distant lands to preach the Gospel. They did not have modern cars or class A highways. What they did have was the fire of the Holy Spirit to keep them going. I pray that this same spirit will keep me going.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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