Dear.....
More than ten years ago I had a conversion. It is one that lives constantly and intensely in the very core of my soul. At that time, it did cross my mind that the religion I grew up with might not be the real one. I had decided to just look around and see what appealed to me.
Fortunately, grace inspired me. I decided that if I was going to abandon the religion I grew up with, I was at least going to look at it first and see what I was leaving.
The Good God put the following books of Frank Sheed into my hands. A Map of Life. Theology and Sanity. To Know Christ Jesus.
Reading those books, I began to understand that up to that point, I had never understood what Catholic is. I had learned the Catechism, gone through the motions and had never understood one single solitary word.
I am not Catholic because I was raised one. I am not Catholic by instinct or habit. I am Catholic by the great generosity of God. I am Catholic because by grace I read, and was granted understanding. I am Catholic by the unfathomable mercy of He Who Is, the infinite condescension of the living God.
The Good God is my King, my Lord, my Master. He is all there IS. He is my love, my all, my being, my Alpha and Omega and my salvation. HE IS.
By the grace of His Majesty, I am Catholic. By the grace of God, I will die a true soldier of Christ.
God bless you dear heart. You are truly and tenderly loved.
God bless you and greetings to your Guardian Angel.
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