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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.
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