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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.
Children, let us love not in word or speech
but in deed and truth.
(1 Jn 3:18-24)
Deeds are always more important than words. Perhaps, the gospel writers were aware of that as well when they portrayed Saint Joseph. In the Scriptures, Saint Joseph never utters a word . . . instead he acts, and that made all the difference.
