
Last month my family and Likable Art has moved from Michigan down to the fine town of Fort Wayne, IN. We’re very excited about the opportunities that this move has brought. The diocese of Fort Wayne/South Bend is doing some great work in our Church and I was honored to be asked to guest blog for their newest project. They released a great app to accompany the year of faith and I encourage you to check it out. Here’s an excerpt of the post:
About a month ago, after mass, I was talking to my brother-in-law and he said simply, “You can tell the spiritual strength of a parish by the way they say the creed.” That got me thinking. As you may know Pope Benedict has claimed this year as the “Year of Faith.” Now I’m not one to question the Pope, but Benny… that’s quite the claim. Now I would think we could start with a Day of Faith, or even the Thirty Seconds of Faith, but a whole year? If faith the size of a mustard seed can move mountains, the entirety of the over 1 billion laity, priests, and religious of the Catholic Church reflecting on faith for a year is going to suck the cosmos inside out faster than if it flipped over a swingset.
But then again, maybe B16 is on to something. Maybe, just maybe, that is exactly what we need right now. We can find plenty wrong with our world, but as Paul put it “Where sin abounds, grace abounds all the more,” and I’ll tell you, grace is abounding. Grace is abounding in growing churches and communities, in organizations helping the helpless, and in hearts of a new generation of Saints called to a radical life of faith. As Catholics, we have the benefit of the wisdom of the Church, which has laid out the core Christian beliefs in our creed. Yeah, that prayer that I stumble over at Mass, and still say, “one in being” instead of “consubstantial” after a whole year of change. That prayer, is one worth praying, one worth learning, one worth changing every aspect of our lives in order to be able to mean those words when they come out of our mouths next Sunday.
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