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Not all who wander are lost
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I favor starting with what is sincere. I believe he had a sincere desire to leave the Catholic Church. I am interested in that sincere desire. My hypothesis: The Church has failed to build his spiritual life and draw him closer to God. Obviously, he and I went to very different Catholics schools (or at least to me it is obvious). One of the Saints (Teresa of Avila) who lived in the 1500s has always stuck in my mind. She was a Spanish nun who wrote about the seven levels of spirituality, all levels having numerous rooms. She stated flat out that even the most sincere person attending Church barely made it into the foyer or first level of spirituality./——/ I’m starting to question K9Buck’s sincerity. Who rants on about leaving the Church? Maybe he’s trying to convince himself.
Basically, the Church church opens the door and greets us, but unfortunately there is so much to be done at this level, we are pretty much left on our own to climb further and discover the other six levels and all those rooms. Still, that first level is the foundation of our Church that is built upon Christ, and it is vital.
Love this joke:
The Three Huts
A ship, sailing past a desert island, spots a man who has been stranded there for several years. The captain goes ashore to rescue the man and notices three huts.
“What’s the first hut for?” he asks.
“That’s my house,” says the castaway.
“What’s the second hut for?”
“That’s my church.”
“And the third hut?”
“Oh, that?” sniffs the castaway. “That’s the church I used to go to.”
The concern I have is that K9Buck may not advancing to a higher level, he just moved to another foyer that has a different design...but is ultimately just another foyer. No one advances to another level by looking back. He seems to be looking back, when perhaps he missed looking up to the next level?