“Jesus did not change history with a flood of words, but by the gift of His life. He did not wait until we were good before he loved us. In the same way, we should not wait for our neighbors to be good before we do good to them, for the Church to be perfect before we love her, for others to respect us before we serve them. Let us begin with ourselves. This is what it means to freely accept the gift of grace.” From the Pope’s homily, Dec. 24, 2019
