From The Pastor

I've been reading the edited diaries of Dorothy Day, founder of the Catholic Worker Movement. In these 40 years of musings there is much good sense from a true Christian saint. The quotation beside the article is one of those powerful insights.

But Dorothy Day was also quite capable of being naive, unselective in her associations, and of arriving at astonishingly bad decisions. In other words, she was quite like you and me.

The daily life of a Christian is place where choices are made and where decisions have consequences Because we follow Jesus, we want those choices and decisions to be God-pleasing ones, but too often they're not. Too often we choose from the options before us with no more thought about the consequences, no more thought about whether our choice is congruent with our faith, no more thought than your average grasshopper.

Now you and I have no part in our justification. God has elected us and God has brought us into His Kingdom through the sacrfice of Jesus at Calvary and the work of the Holy Spirit. But we do have a part in making day to day choices which are before us every day.

We are bombarded daily with all sorts of stimuli, all sorts of thing that move us in ways which are contrary to God's ways. Television, computer, music, automobiles, shopping malls; all of these things can and do lure us out of a place of obedience and into a place of disobedience.

There is no way we can live in this culture and remain true to our faith if we do not lean all of our weight on the Holy Spirit and trust Him to guide us in the right paths. Each day we should remind ourselves of our baptism and each day we should pray to the Spirit to strenghten us in the face of all the temptations of modern life.

When we trust Him in all things, we are safe in all ways.

Pr. Culler