There are many reasons to be pessimistic with recent global and local events. So what is the joy of the Catholic? Cardinal Luis Tagle gives the homily at the closing mass of the National Eucharistic Congress and help us understand.

Do we see others as problems or gifts? Our parents? Our spouses? The poor? The old? The sick? Our parents? Bosses? Coworkers? When we see others as gifts, we find joy in the uniting mission of giving ourselves to the work of love. If we see others a problems, then we seek only our own desires and turn inward.

Just as Jesus gave his body for the world on the cross and in the eucharist, we give ourselves as gift to the world. He gives us some questions to see if we are manifesting that joy and mission to the world.