Oblate Program at Belmont Abbey, NC

Witnesses to Christ in a materialistic world

A few years ago, there was much talk of the secularized world, the post-Christian era. Fashion changes, but a profound reality remains. Christians  today must  be formed  to live in a world which largely ignores God or which, in religious matters, in place of an exacting and fraternal  dialogue, stimulating for all, too often founders in a debasing indifferentism, if it does not remain in a scornful attitude of “suspicion” in the name of the progress it has made in the field of scientific “explanations.” To “hold on” in this world, to offer to all a “dialogue of salvation” in which each person feels respected in his or her most basic dignity, the dignity of one  who  is seeking God, we need a catechesis which trains the young people and adults of our communities to remain clear and consistent in their faith, to affirm serenely their Christian and Catholic identity, to “see Him who is invisible” and to adhere so firmly to the absoluteness of God  that they can be witnesses to Him in a materialistic civilization that denies Him.

Blessed John Paul II

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