What do you believe in? Do you believe that the sun will rise in the morning? Do you believe that the stars will shine at night? Things that we see and can observe reacting with our lives are easy to believe, but what about God?
We start the Year of Faith today with a close look at why we have faith. What is it that turns our gaze to the visible and invisible to make our heart skip a beat and wonder how things came to be? It is that natural curiosity of mankind. That inner longing for knowledge. The desire to know something other than ourselves. That longing, that desire, inevitably leads to God.
The Catechism addresses this from the very beginning:
27 The desire for God is written in the human heart, because man is created by God and for God; and God never ceases to draw man to himself. Only in God will he find the truth and happiness he never stops searching for:
Catholic Church. (2000). Catechism of the Catholic Church (2nd Ed.) (13). Washington, DC: United States Catholic Conference.
The secular world today will tell us there is no God. The secular world wants us to embrace its idea of a humancentric existence, that we are but a blob of protoplasm and have evolved from the muck of our own accord. The atheistic movement is gaining much ground and we are buffeted by the ill winds of a rebellious world.
Some people will despair and withdraw, some will turn their eyes and pretend nothing is happening, and some will give in and lose hope. Hope........ where does that come from? Hope and faith go hand in hand.
to be continued.....
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