to the best of your ability

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Dec 2020 clementines board web

“The duty of the moment is what you should be doing at any given time, in whatever place God has put you.

You may not have Christ in a homeless person at your door, but you may have a little child.

If you have a child, your duty of the moment may be to change a dirty diaper.

So you do it.

But you don't just change that diaper, you change it to the best of your ability, with great love for both God and that child….

There are all kinds of good Catholic things you can do, but whatever they are, you have to realize that there is always the duty of the moment to be done.

And it must be done, because the duty of the moment is the duty of God.”


― Catherine Doherty

 

We discussed in our theology class that doing a good deed of your choice is, of course, a good thing.  However, doing what you ought or what you must and doing that to the best of your ability is ever more meritorious because it has added to it the virtue of obedience.  We can make a dozen resolutions for the new year.  They can be very motivating and are certainly not bad things.  Still it cannot compare with doing what is placed before us with a gentle spirit, trusting that is what would please God the most.  It is not that complicated to figure out what our purpose is.  It lies right there in meeting the duty of the moment.  

 

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