27 April 2018
We’re a people of faith, and yet, it’s not an absolutely
blind faith. We’re also a people of
reason. It’s why Christianity is
described as a “reasonable faith.” We
don’t just pull things out of thin air and call it the gospel.
And so, if we ever have doubts about our faith (or if
somebody questions why we believe in the first place), we put our noggins in
gear and we point to the Apostles. We
have faith because of the Apostles (and with a little help from the Holy Spirit
and the whole life of the Church for the past 2,000 years). Our faith is rooted in the Apostles and what
they said.
Saint Paul writes that “God raised [Jesus] from the dead, and
for many days he appeared to those who had come up with him from Galilee to
Jerusalem. These are now his witnesses
before the people.” “These” being the
Apostles and those close to them.
Why do we believe in the Eucharist? Because the Apostles were there at the Last
Supper, and they handed it on to us. Why
do we believe in a loving God? Because
that’s who the Apostles encountered in the flesh-and-blood Jesus. Why do we believe in life and death? Because the Apostles were there at the
Resurrection, and they’ve handed that great truth onto us.
Our faith is not an absolutely blind faith. It’s a reasonable faith, one that involves
both the heart and the head. We pray
that God will keep us strong in both heart and mind.
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