Dig Deeply

The misfortune of Christendom is that it has encouraged people in the notion that by knowing the facts about Christ's life eighteen hundred years ago, they have faith.--Soren Kierkegaard

 

We must embrace faith on our own within our own minds and hearts. It is a good thing to be born into the faith. It is good to be baptized as a child and grow up knowing the workings of the faith. It is good to grow up with the liturgy, sounds, smells, ins and outs of the faith. This is all very good and good for the soul. But every soul must step out of its familiar culture for a moment and study the faith as if discovering something for the first time. The decades of the rosary mean more when they are suddenly relative to something we are going through. The "Our Father" at some point should amaze our sensibilities with its brilliance and fullness. The Mass will come alive for us when we have an "aha"  that it was for us He died, and for us that He gives Himself in this mysterious way called the Eucharist. We all must dig deeply into this Kingdom that is within us.

 

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