Seeking Faith in One Thousand and Forty-Five

How do you know and believe there is a God? Most Catholics express belief in God through their own life journey accompanied in faith and trust in the Catholic church while others accept logical philosophic proofs/arguments for their belief in God’s existence. Below I invite you to watch Bishop Robert Barron offer St. Thomas Aquinas’s proof for God based on existence that it is and essence what it is. https://www.wofdigital.org/videos/mog-2 Belief in God may be approached either way accompanied by a seeking mind and heart.

From God’s infinite existence we are to know the two thousand years history of the faith of the Jewish people before Christ. It is through their faith in God our journey in faith history begins with the birth of God’s son, Jesus the Christ, two thousand years ago. How do you live with the certainty that God exists and Jesus is Lord? Reading this bulletin writing you know with certainty that you are reading it. It requires no faith. Certainty is not a requirement to trust living your life of faith believing in God. Humility does help to trust God has a plan for our lives even with uncertainty.

There are those times uncertainty in our faith may lead us to a “cliffs edge decision” about what and how to believe. So, how do we leap over the cliff’s “chasm of uncertainty” from one side to believe Christ is waiting for us to leap to the other side? An American Indian proverb says, “Leap, it’s not as far as you think.” Our faith history is richly blessed by those past and present who model for us the leap they took to live their lives believing in God and the life, passion and resurrection of Jesus.
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We too at times are to take a leap seeking to know and live our faith more deeply as the guide for our lives. This Sunday part of God’s plan for us is revealed in Mark’s gospel (Mk10:45) where remarkably we hear Jesus was sent “not to be served but to serve” all of us. Our faith is also to serve Him and those we meet in the journey of our lives. 

Footnote: This bulletin letter titled “Seeking Faith in One Thousand and Forty-Five” is not a date in history. The title offers purposed uncertainty to what it means but it did lead you to Mk10:45 also known as 1,045 revealing your faith efforts are there seeking to learn more.

​Now keep going.
Dn. Jack and Sharon Redmond 

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