Jesus warned that people could become so consumed with eating, drinking, buying, selling, and building that they would forget what matters most.
Yet Saint Frances Xavier Cabrini spent her life doing precisely those things—organizing, fundraising, traveling, and building hospitals, schools, and orphanages.
Was Mother Cabrini contradicting the Gospel? Or was she showing us what it really means?
In today’s Chesterton Radio Morning Prayer Deep Dive, we explore one of Christianity’s most fascinating paradoxes: how to love the world without becoming possessed by it.
Through the Gospel of Luke, the extraordinary life of America’s first canonized citizen saint, and the remarkable insights of G. K. Chesterton, we discover why the things we cannot keep may be the very things we are called to build.
We’ll explore Mother Cabrini’s extraordinary mission among America’s immigrants, Chesterton’s understanding of gratitude and wonder, and what Christ’s warning about the days of Noah and Lot means for our own lives.
What does Christian detachment really mean? Must we abandon ambition, achievement, and material security? Or can our ordinary work become something extraordinary?
And what are we building today that will matter in eternity?
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