Church teaching explained to you
YOUCAT*: We are here on earth in order to know and to love God, to do good according to his will, and to go someday to heaven. [CCC 1-3, 358]
New Year = Fresh Start. Like so many others, I spent the last few weeks of December thinking about my New Year’s resolution. Of course, I knew that no matter what I decided on would be a complete FAIL within the first week of the new year.
A resolution is supposed to change an ingrained behavior; it’s supposed to make me a better person. This got me thinking — Why do we make resolutions? What is our purpose in life?
Some of you will remember one of the first things we learned in the Baltimore Catechism: “God made me to know Him, to love Him, and to serve Him in this world and to be happy with Him in the next.”
Why not resolve to continue to learn more about God, fall deeper in love with him, and serve him through social causes or in parish ministry? Sounds like a few good resolutions.
*Youth Catechism of the Catholic Church
Lisa Gomes is the director of the Office of Youth and Young Adult Ministry
