Hello, hope all is well.

I would think that we all have met people who try to be someone other than who they are. Some times some are able to pull this off very well. But every once in a while they let their “mask” fall and they reveal the person beneath who really they are.

When we do get to see the real person, we feel cheated, taken, or maybe foolish that we have allowed this person to take us as a fool.

We know that we all have a vicarious “masks” we put on depending on with whom we are with. So when we are in a meeting with our boss, we have one which would differ with the one we ware when we are out having coffee with some of our fellow employees. And then there is the maybe the real “we” when we are at home with our family or with our close friends.

St. Catherine of Siena tells us, “Be who God meant you to be and you will set the world on fire.” That is the person who God had in mind from the foundation of the universe

It makes for a very difficult life having to decide which mask we need to use depending on who we are with. It is so much easier just to be ourselves and allow others to see the wonderful person God love from all eternity and the one that God wishes to reveal Himself to those who we are with. That is what Catherine had in mind`  in being the person we are meant to be, and we will be able to set the world on fire with God’s love.

Peace and All Good,

Fr. Vinnie, fcm and the

Bros and Srs of the

Franciscan House of Prayer.