What makes us Catholic
This is a random reading selected from the CRED collectionDaily Reading for 1 September 2003
Thomas Groome’s book, What makes us Catholic, is written for the ordinary Catholic of today, either those who still practise the faith or those who have ceased to practise, and lost contact. It brings together the major elements that cohere in the Catholic imagination. Catholics recognise that sin is a powerful force for evil in the world, but are convinced that God’s grace is even more powerful. Hence they want to celebrate regularly.
Convinced that everything created by God is good through and through, the Catholic is a sacramental person, sensing the mysterious God in and through everyday things. Committed to the Scriptures as record of God’s revelation in human language, Catholics also trust the Spirit of God to so penetrate the living Tradition of the Church that it too becomes a locus for God’s ongoing revelation.
CCC 831: “The character of universality which adorns the People of God is a gift from the lord himself whereby the Catholic Church ceaselessly and efficaciously seeks for the return of all humanity and all its goods, under Christ the Head in the unity of his Spirit” (Lumen Gentium, 13).
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