Spirituality for Beginners

Fr. Bede's almost-daily reflections. When it comes to the spiritual life, we're all beginners. I also send these out by email. Contact me at bcamera@anselm.edu. God bless!





Thursday, September 24, 2015

The Desire for God

The “Catechism of the Catholic Church” is not a book meant to be read from cover to cover, but rather one to be consulted or browsed through with the help of the index in the back. It also provides a lot of nourishment and food for meditation.

One of my favorite passages is Paragraph 27, and I’ve often quoted it in homilies and talks.

 “The desire for God is written in the human heart, because man is created by God and for God; and God never ceases to draw man to himself. Only in God will he find the truth and happiness he never stops searching for.”

Each phrase of this paragraph can be a meditation onto itself, and would like to explore its riches in the next few reflections.

For today, you might like to think it over and look for specific instances in your life when this teaching has been proven true for you.

More tomorrow.


By the way, the COCC is available on line and I believe it has a searchable index as well. 

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