| Sunday
24th August 2008
On
this Rock I will build my Church
“You are
the Christ, the Son of the living God.”
This is the core of our faith as followers of
Christ. A way of restating this is that Christ
is the one above all others who can teach us
the fullness of human life. And he teaches us
that the only way to full human living is to
love God with our whole heart and to love our
neighbour as ourselves. Married couples are
the great prophets of this way, as love is at
the core of their existence. But this love has
to be worked at every day. Love does not just
mean how we feel but how we choose what is best
for each other and for the marriage relationship.
These choices have to be made every day and
often during many days. The same is true within
family life. As we acknowledge the family as
the Domestic Church, we know that love is at
the centre of it. And certainly if we are to
build the parish as a community of faith these
decisions to love, to make Christ present, are
essential.
Fr. Johnny
Doherty, C.Ss.R.
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