About Catechetical Reflection for each Day (CRED)
The idea for this project came to me over a year ago, when I heard about the finding of a dead body in a suitcase in the Grand Canal, less than a mile from where I live. As I was cycling along Russell Street, I saw a few women standing on the canal bridge and pointing west. It was they who explained to me about the strange events of that day.
I couldn't help thinking about the person who had been so cruelly destroyed. Being a person of faith, I automatically connected these reflections to my prayers, and wondered where God was in all this. Christian faith believes in a God who speaks to the human race through the events of every day. What might God be saying to us today through this and other occurrences? My Catechism of the Catholic Church (CCC) was nearby as I wrote these reflections, and I also began to wonder how earlier Catholic Christians had faced such issues as sudden death, illness, warfare etc. Catechesis involves listening for echoes of God in the past and in the present.
I decided to keep up this series of reflections (calling them 'CRED') in a spirit of faith ('credo' means I believe). I began to search through the CCC in order to find traditional phrases to illuminate my thoughts about the events of each day as they touched my heart, and mind and imagination. God speaks through the bits and pieces of every day. This is one person's attempt to record something of God's soothing and challenging voice. Readers may be encouraged to do likewise, listening to God in their own lives.
CRED is no longer actively updated, below you can search back through the archives from 2001 to 2006
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