Children, let us love not in word or speech but in deed and truth. (1 Jn 3:11-21)
https://bible.usccb.org/bible/readings/010524.cfm
Love is not optional. It is essential to faith because our faith tells us that God is Love. Saint John Neumann (1811-1860) was an immigrant who became the Bishop of Philadelphia, the City of Brotherly Love.
These reflections are a result of more than 40 years of ministry as a Roman Catholic priest. Most of these years I spent in the Diocese of Charlotte which covers Western North Carolina. Now I am retired, and live in Medellín, Colombia where I continue to serve as a priest in the Archdiocese of Medellín.
Saint John Neumann, bishop, January 5
