“Beware of getting too comfortable. When we are comfortable, it’s easy to forget other people.” – Pope Francis
Today is Holy Thursday. Today Our Lord at the Last Supper gave us a new commandment: no longer are we to love others as ourselves, He asks us to love others as He has loved us.
This sounds and is impossible. That’s why He also gave us a “Beware of getting too comfortable. When we are comfortable, it’s easy to forget other people.” – Pope Francis
Today is Holy Thursday. Today Our Lord at the Last Supper gave us a new commandment: no longer are we to love others as ourselves, He asks us to love others as He has loved us.
About Fr Simon Devereux LC
FR SIMON was born on February 4, 1979, in Dunedin, New Zealand, the seventh son of Marie and Michael Devereux. He entered the novitiate of the Legionaries of Christ in Cheshire, Connecticut, on September 15, 1997. After his novitiate and year of humanities in Cheshire, he studied a bachelor’s in Philosophy at the Pontifical Athenaeum Regina Apostolorum in Rome from 2000 to 2002 and from 2005 to 2007, a licentiate in Philosophy. In between, he worked as a youth minister in Quebec, Canada, and he made his perpetual profession in Rome on October 4, 2005. In 2010 he completed a three-year bachelor’s degree in Theology and was ordained on Christmas Eve of the same year with 60 of his brother Legionaries by Card. Velasio di Paolis. Two of his brothers are also Legionary priests. Fr Simon is now based at the Legion of Christ seminary in Cheshire, Connecticut.
“Beware of getting too comfortable. When we are comfortable, it’s easy to forget other people.” – Pope Francis