Sargent Shriver and God

Kennedy biographer Laurence Leamer was on NPR this morning talking about Sargent Shriver, who died yesterday at 95. Shriver was a legendary figure in the world of public service and well-known if far less successful in politics. He was also a devoted Catholic, and it was Leamer’s response to Shriver celebrating Mass most mornings that caught my attention:

I asked him once, Why do you go to Mass every morning? And he said, Because I need God everyday. He was indeed a public servant of a kind we do not have very much of anymore.

That reminds me of Martin Luther’s great line that he was “too busy not to pray.”

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