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Christ loves these souls in a special way, but He doesn’t have enough hands and feet that are willing to give up the time and energy to serve them.

C.S. Lewis reminds us, “Now the whole offer which Christianity makes is this: that we can, if we let God have his way, come to share in the life of Christ … He came to this world and became a man in order to spread  to other men the kind of life He has — by what I call a “good infection.” Every Christian is to become a little Christ. The whole purpose of Christianity is simply nothing else.”

The Holy Spirit is the ultimate “soul” coach within each of your hearts — and He is trying to bring out this image of Christ that, over time, has been covered by our selfishness, passions and imperfections. Ask Him where you need to go. Try to collaborate with Him during this Lenten period so that by dying to self — you can truly rise with Christ, into that new man or woman He so desires and needs to see emerge. 

Fr. Michael Sliney is a Catholic priest based in New York and an adviser to the Lumen Institute, a professional business group.