Sopocko Today (15 February), the memory of Blessed Fr. Michael Sopocko, confessor St. Sister Faustina. For some time I wear a breviary in a prayer for the cause of this priest. In general, close to me are the attitudes of holy priests, because from them I learned how to be a priest, and how to love the priesthood and This is not always easy. I'm learning how to be a faithful priest and as required, from each other above all. Recently I bought the "Official" Fr. Sopocko that thanks to him to be able to "podpatrzeć" ordinary, everyday life of this wise and holy priest.
In today's breviary, to celebrate the memories of Fr. Michael is an excerpt of his writings. Very timely. I recommend!
the writings of Bl. Michael Sopocko, presbyter
(Mercy of God in His works, Paris 1967, t. 4, p. 217-218)
Mercy of God in the pastoral
greatest spiritual danger our time is the secularization of human souls. Pressed mood today secularism everywhere less resistant to all souls. He does not attack, as the old heresies, the various dogmas of faith, but it undermines the whole supernatural belief, trying to pick up the sense of inner life, to downplay it, and remove beyond the pale of contemporary concerns of any extraterrestrial human aspirations and desires. We live in an era of frenetic pace of technology, under the banner of the increasingly audacious achievements of the human mind, in the heat of the big cities, where every nerve and every muscle tends to be fuller wyżycia and use: earthly paradise is to supplant the human soul supposedly futile dreams of alien values. From there it flows to the reluctance of religious books, the fear of sermons, reduced to a minimum the shallowness of religious practices when a deep ignorance of the principles of faith, the expansion of individual and family ethics and the selfish instincts of use. In these new attitudes that poison and uncompromisingly to the land grab of modern man, you hear the cry of the Church: "Seek ye first the kingdom of God and His righteousness." This call seems to be a voice crying in the desert. But today, the order of the Saviour: "Go therefore and make disciples of all nations, (...) Teach them to observe all things whatsoever I have commanded you" - is current, as in the past. All the more so today, minister in word and deed must satisfy the principle of Sursum corda - heart pointing upward, without paying excessively for the temporal things that moth destroys and takes a thief, but seeking the Kingdom of God above all, for more than gold and platinum, more than knowledge and career, honors and over-use, infinitely more important to eternal happiness, prepared for us with God's mercy. At the same time
Thus the age-old enemy of mankind effort to zeświecczyć souls and devour at a dizzying whirl of life outside, chaplain to expand and deepen the values \u200b\u200bof the supernatural life, is to educate the saints by the executives and governments of the souls under the influence of the idea of \u200b\u200bGod's mercy, both in the confessional, as well as outside him.
Almighty and merciful God, you chose † Blessed Michael, the priest to preach to the world the message of Thy Mercy, * cases, we ask that his faithful ministry brought all the people abundant fruits of conversion and holiness.
