‘They give their trust entirely to God and are rewarded for it.’

Pope Benedict Sunday pointed to the greatest challenge of surrender. It is the greatest sacrifice, the key to the greatest joy, a life of the fullest freedom: A willing labor and living in service to the Will of God.

It’s worth pointing out because the renewal we so desperately need will never happen without it.
It’s why the lives of the saints — told in the most relevant of ways to the modern-day by Colleen Carroll Campbell in her new book, by Susan Wills in a recent interview, are great gifts to us.