What we Believe

Life is awesome. Look up into a starry night sky. Beauty goes beyond words. Listen to music. Love counts for more than anything. Wouldn’t you literally die for your own children if you had to? And don’t we all need to feel loved, and at the deepest levels of our being?

At the root of all such forms of human experience we sense that there is more, and that it has a source beyond ourselves. The Christian faith is that all people, the whole world, and the entire immensity of existence, is enfolded in the unconditional love of God. Amazingly, God reaches out to us, and quite personally so in Jesus who is the Son of the Eternal Father, in the creativity of the Holy Spirit.

The Church is like a great theatre in which deep spiritual themes are played out. How can we tell if it is true, or merely a human expression in an attempt to invest our lives with meaning? Only by giving ourselves wholly to the drama and entering into it as if nothing else mattered. In that process many of us discover intimations of truthfulness which assure us that this is no play on life, but its essence.

In this theatre there are slight variations of plot, style of presentation and scenery. The most ancient, the richest and most powerful is the Catholic Faith. Many of us find it utterly compelling and once it has captivated our hearts and minds we must follow it through to the end.