By Marjorie Campbell
I've been offline from Deal's blog for a while - working, as many of you know, on my canon law thesis. What a bear - thank you for your encouragement and prayers. But tonight, I was called back to this blog with a comment I received worthy of publishing as a post.
Why?
I need inspiration to be positive, not angry; optimistic, not mired in wrong; to be hopeful ... hopeful ... hopeful and oriented to Jesus, Jesus Christ who had the audacity to die for us. I've attended many Catholic events over the last few months, and I am worried about our (okay my Irish) inclination to find doom and disaster where there is opportunity to evangelize anew and shine our light into the deepest darkness some of us have ever known. So, for those in Regnum Christi, and those who have not even heard of this lay movement, I offer this moving "comment" from someone I do not know, sent today to a post of many months ago that proves, in my humble opinion, that no human imperfection, or vice of Satan, can drive God from a path and discussion dedicated to Christ.
"I asked God to allow me to serve Him somehow. Believe it or not it wasn't easy for me to figure out how to serve God and be a devoted apostle in the Catholic church He led me to RC. I joined because I fell in love with FAMILIA training. It was the only formation I had received as a cradle Catholic that teaches the Cathechism, the Bible, Papal Encyclicals (which are spiritual poetry), and the importance of the role of motherhood. So what if the founder Maciel fell from grace? He won't be the first or last. There is nothing in my life's experience to make me think that people are perfect. My/our leader is Jesus and I'm wise enough to know that only He will never disappoint me. The more the our faith is attacked, the more committed the faithful become. We know who wins this war."
