Dear Parishioners:
As a community of believers, we are
pledged to God and to one another to take responsibility for living the Faith
we profess and for sharing that Faith with others. This is our true “job,” our
reason for being. While living in the
world, we are not of the world, that is, this world that is passing around
us. We are destined for Eternity, and
this has to be the guiding principle for all that we do.
The world around us belongs to
God. It is His Creation. It is good.
It is beautiful. As God created
it, it is true. As human beings, we are
created connatural to the Truth. That
is, the Truth fits us as God created us to be.
We fit the Truth. When we are in
accord with Truth, God said that we are “very good.” Sin has introduced a distortion into the
world and this makes things more complicated.
Our mind, our intellects, our
capacity to make judgments about what is true and good are distorted and
confused. We reach for apparent,
temporary goods and we find that they do not satisfy our hearts. Only God, Who IS Goodness Himself,
satisfies. As St. Augustine
The challenge we face now is to live in a
world that is actively pursuing a path that tries to leave God entirely out of
the equation, as if God’s participation in His own creation is an optional part
of the world’s existence. We can be
duped. If we think that we are the
authors of our own being, rather than co-creators with God, we are destined for
nothing but dissatisfaction with our very selves and with the world around us.
On the other hand, when we choose to
cooperate with God’s grace and to work with Him to establish a resting place
for His Goodness in our world, we are capable of doing greater things than we
can every ask or imagine. When we are
humble and accept God’s gifts to us as
gifts, as an undeserved sharing in His Love, we receive great riches,
wealth untold. We begin to approach the
City of Zion
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