{"id":5058,"date":"2010-10-14T06:40:53","date_gmt":"2010-10-14T06:40:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/deaconsbench\/2010\/10\/we-have-to-show-gods-love-in-action.html"},"modified":"2010-10-14T06:40:53","modified_gmt":"2010-10-14T06:40:53","slug":"we-have-to-show-gods-love-in-action","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/deaconsbench\/2010\/10\/we-have-to-show-gods-love-in-action.html","title":{"rendered":"“We have to show God’s love in action…”"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"bishop<\/a><\/span>“I don’t find it difficult to pray. All the training and experiences I’ve had help me to pray today in spite of a busy schedule. I was never told, ‘You have to pray this many hours every day.’ From an early age, I connected faith to action. Faith is assimilated through action. When people want me to do another workshop or retreat for young adults considering religious life, sometimes I tell them that that ‘alone’ is not going to do it. Why not have the young adults bring clothes to a family that’s just moved into the neighborhood from Mexico? If we want to know God’s love, we have to show God’s love in action.<\/p>\n

At the same time, if I don’t have the experience of God in me, I cannot share it with anyone else. I spend an hour each morning and an hour and a half every evening in prayer. I like to pray in the chapel before the Blessed Sacrament. I need to be acquainted with the Lord. I cannot live without him. I need that time to allow Jesus to show me how to be a friend of his.”<\/p>\n

— Bishop Gustavo Garcia-Siller,<\/a>
just named to be Archbishop of San Antonio.
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Read more about him.<\/a>
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