So, if I can make a good speech, or sing well, or have money, it shows the way open to me to make myself of service to others. Really this is a new view, and one not generally taken, of ability and wealth and power! But it is taken by the Creator, who has bestowed those gifts, and by the Judge who will call the receiver to account for them.
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Whatever advantage I enjoy over my companions, I should count it all the greater call on me to be of service to others.
-- Joseph Rickaby, SJ,
Ye Are Christ's
