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ascensionpress.com slash support. Thanks. Hi, my name's Father Mike Schmitz, and this is

Ascentra Presents. I have been ruminating on something I heard

a man say. This man was in the military for a long time. And a lot of times, if you're in special

operations, one of the things that happens is you have these tests, right, these qualifier tests. And he said

that there was so much he could not control about

this test that this one line kept going through his mind again and again. It kind of became his

prayer. And it's something that's just, it stuck with me so powerfully and so profoundly. So we'll get

back to that sentence in that, or that thing he thought. I think he prayed essentially in a second.

I've often been meditating on

something I heard that St. Mother Teresa of Calcutta once said. She said, God does not ask us

to be successful. He asks us to be faithful. I thought, that's so profound, right? Especially

for those of us who are doing our best, right? We're trying and there are so many times we can't control the outcome. On campus here, we want every single person to come to know who Jesus Christ is and be, to encounter him in a real way, in a way that changes their lives and leads them to worship him at the altar and the Catholic Church, right, to be able to give, lead people to such a place where they all want to be Catholic. They all want to have that their lives be completely transformed. That's the outcome. I want that to be the case. I want every person on campus, even myself. Like, I want to be a saint. And that's what God wants, of course. But so often we can't control the outcome, right? So often we can't control our circumstances, and we also can't control the results.

And I think that's one of the reasons why Mother Teresa of Calcutta had said that.

We think of Mother Teresa, and we think, oh my gosh, incredibly holy woman, a woman who made a massive

difference, Nobel Peace Prize, like all of these successes.

And yet, what was she principally

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