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.

Monday XXI, Ordinary Time

We give thanks to God always for all of you, remembering you in our prayers, unceasingly calling to mind your work of faith and labor of love and endurance in hope of our Lord Jesus Christ, before our God and Father, knowing, brothers and sisters loved by God, how you were chosen. (1 Thes 1:1-5, 8b-10)
https://bible.usccb.org/bible/readings/082525.cfm
Sometimes we forget that we are chosen by God in Christ, that God has called us by name. We have been called to the “work of faith, the labor of love and endurance in hope.” That is our dignity, that is our mission and our call.