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And here’s what he said…

“It is possible to identify two basic lines of our current secularized society that are clearly interdependent. They impel people to move away from the Christian procolomation and cannot but have an effect on those whose inclinations and choices of life are developing. One of these is agnosticism, which derives from the reduction of human intelligence to a mere practical mechanism that tends to stifle the religious sense engraved in the depths of our nature. The other is the process of relativization and uprooting, which corrodes the most sacred bonds and most worthy affections of the human being, with the result that people are debilitated and our reciprocal relations rendered precarious and unstable. It is in this very situation that all of us, and especially our children, adolecents, and young people, need to live faith as joy and to savor that profound tranquility to which the encounter with the Lord gives rise. The source of Christian joy is the certainty of being loved by God, loved personally by our Creator, by the One who holds the entire universe in His hands and loves each one of us and the whole great human family with a passionate and faithful love, a love greater than our infidelities and sins, a love which forgives. This certitude and this joy of being loved by God must be conveyed in some palpable and practical way to each one of us, and especially to the young generations who are entering the world of faith. In other wods: Jesus said he was the “Way” that leads to the Father, as well as the “Truth” and the “Life” (cf. Jn 14:5-7). It is therefore indispensable- and this is the tast entrusted to Christian families, priests, catechists and educators, to young people themselves among their peers and to our parishes, associations and movements, and lastly to the entire diocesean community- that the new generations experience the Church as a company of frineds who are truly dependable and close in all life’s moments and circumstances, whether joyful and gratifying or ardous and obscure; as a company that will never fail us, not even in death, for it carries within it the promise of eternity.”

Basically, if you have felt God’s presence in your life, you MUST NOT BE AFRAID TO SHARE IT! The crippling affects of the secularization of the world are running rampent in our society and the only thing that can derail that is the proclomation by ALL His people, that God is with us. He is alive and I am not willing to be quiet about it.

Praise Him and Praise Him loud.

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