Do Catholics Live In a Different World?
What world is it then that they see?
Catholics live in a different world. They ought to live in a different world.
If they do not… If they don’t appear to the world as if they do, then something is definitely wrong.
Because Catholics should see a kind of light that bathes the world they’re living in. They should see how this light touches everything. From the tallest tree to the lowest grass. From the highest mountain peak to the deepest part of the seas.
They must live and move and breathe as though there is something that only their spiritual eyes could possibly see. Faith in the midst of unbelief. Hope in the midst of despair. And love amidst all hatred.
What else but faith can help a person see Christ in a small piece of bread? And what else but hope can give us strength when our physical body is suffering in weariness and pain?
Catholics see Christ disguised among the poor, and so they reach out to Him to feed Him, clothe Him and give Him warmth.
Catholics see the Blessed Mother interceding for the whole world, and so they unite their sufferings to her in prayer for the sake of the world.
What kind of believers would we be if we did not hear the choirs of heaven calling upon us each day, encouraging us to one day find our way back home?
We may live like everyone else when it comes to earning a living and securing our temporal needs. But we should do it only as pilgrims whose sight is set towards the end of our journey.
We are heroes and heroines in an adventure to spread this Kingdom of Light to the world. We fight, we hope and we bleed along the way.
But because we know that we live in a different world, we rise again and we carry on.
We take as many people as we can back to where this light comes from. We know the way because Christ is the way. And we walk with Him every step of our journey here below.
“In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. He was in the beginning with God. All things came into being through him, and without him not one thing came into being. What has come into being in him was life, and the life was the light of all people. The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness did not overcome it.” - John 1:1-5 (NRSVCE)
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