The editors of Dominicana are pleased to report that Cardinal Donald Wuerl, Archbishop of Washington, D.C. and our local Ordinary, has started his own blog. We encourage you to go check it out. His Eminence has chosen the blog’s title, “Seek First the Kingdom,” from what is surely one of the most beautiful passages in all of Scripture:
Look at the birds of the air: they neither sow nor reap nor gather into barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not of more value than they? And which of you by being anxious can add one cubit to his span of life? And why are you anxious about clothing? Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow; they neither toil nor spin; yet I tell you, even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these. But if God so clothes the grass of the field, which today is alive and tomorrow is thrown into the oven, will he not much more clothe you, O men of little faith? Therefore do not be anxious, saying, “What shall we eat?” or “What shall we drink?” or “What shall we wear?” For the Gentiles seek all these things; and your heavenly Father knows that you need them all. But seek first his kingdom and his righteousness, and all these things shall be yours as well.
—Matthew 6:26–33
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Image: Christ Pantocrator, Chora Church, Istanbul