Lux Mundi: The Electric Coming Together of Two Passions

Monday, July 30, 2012

The Electric Coming Together of Two Passions

Prayer and spirituality are inseparable in their communion with each other.

The spirit (or the soul) is attracted to and made for affinity to God. Prayer contacts the divine in an effort to petition and ask grace to nourish and sustain our souls. Just like a child needs to be nurtured, loved, cared for and tended to, so do our souls in order for them to stay zealous and wanting of God. The soul is our link to God and our spiritual life is characterized by our relationship with Him. As Catholics we have a truly unique connection with God. We can use Scripture, tradition, devotions, confession, the sacraments, sacramentals, prayer, and much more to enhance our devotion and love for God and become servants of Him and through His loving mercy, invited to friendship. In order to enter into friendship with Our Father we must humble ourselves and love God. One simple way that this can be done is with prayer.

In prayer we invite God into our day and bring Him into our home. We offer God our thanks for helping, loving and supplying us with everything we need for the spiritual journey. In this spiritual journey we grow in faith, hope, love, charity and humility, learning to completely depend on God and walk the narrow path with nothing, but the things God has given us. With our prayers God prays in us changing us from the inside out, making us Christ like, but completely different from everyone else. We acknowledge Him as our God who is righteous, merciful, and loving in all aspects. In prayer we adore, sing, and offer sweet discourse of love and affection praising his name. We ask for all that we need from him, petitioning God for purity of body and soul. We ask for our "Daily Bread" showing our faith in His ability to give to us all we need and more this day. In prayer we repent and offer our tears and sorrows to God for his infinite mercy, and love, and grace. In all of this we recognize Him as the one and only true God and in this act we humble ourselves and open our hearts to Him, which is infinitely pleasing to God.

Prayer and spirituality takes persistence and grace, faith and hope, love and zeal in order for your spiritual life to grow. Pray often, praise often, and ask often, open yourself to Him and he will surely give to all that you need. I pray that this will be of some assistance on your spiritual journey

God Bless You,
Alfonse Amante de Dios

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About Us

First of all we are all young people and proudly Catholic. We are a group of close friends in college and we are lively and practicing young men and women who have devoted our lives to the service of Christ and His Church in whatever way the Lord sees fit! That is partially the most exciting part of this group. We all went to high school together, and we met in our senior year. A string of circumstances brought us together to pray and discuss our faith. It was a truly incredible time! For now there are only a few of us working on this blog but we hope some others will join us as time goes on.

This Blog was my idea. I have been looking for a way to get involved in spreading the Gospel in a real and effective way for two years. I cannot stand being on the side lines. One day some inspiration came to me: A blog by Catholic youth for everyone. Since I can remember there has been a lack of an intense youthful presence in the Church. That is most certainly changing, and I want to be part of it! In my many experiences with catholic blogs, I have had to go to several places to read all the information and discussion I wanted, so my thought was to create a one stop blog, simple and easy, which has several “voices” with one directed sound. I don’t know if that makes sense. I want to have one direction with several different authors and perspectives but all young. I also don’t want the writing to be overly elevated nor obsessively analytical, which can sometimes scare people away. But we also can’t dumb down the faith; to do that would be an insult to the one true faith. That, for the most part was the idea! There are things similar, but none like what I was really hoping to do. One night I was blessed with this inspiration. But I have been frightened to take it on, that is one of my faults, misguided fear. The idea wouldn’t go away and I figured I needed to try but I couldn’t do it alone. There was only one group of people who could help me do this and so I enlisted the help of my friends; and here we are.

A little bit on our beliefs: We are most definitely and unapologetically Catholic. So, although this may be a cliche, if you need more information, google the phrase Nicene-Constantinople Creed. That should sufficiently point out our doctrinal backgrounds. One thing we do wish to express explicitly is our total reliance on the authentic authority of God, both in Heaven and on Earth. We commonly encounter that which is on Earth, although it is eternally united to that of the Lord! What we are saying is we submit ourselves to the judgment and guidance of the Holy Father and the Magisterium. That is of the utmost importance. Many Catholics today neglect authentic Revelation (i.e. Tradition) and authentic authority! But that is for another time!

We love Christ and His Church. We are not perfect, in fact we are sinners, and I particularly am quite the sinner! However we are striving for holiness and to live a saintly life so that we might in the next life be rewarded with entrance into the Kingdom of Heaven.

We hope you find your way to an informed faith through this blog. We don’t expect to reach millions but maybe a few will find us and be inspired, maybe someone will find us and through the grace of God find his way to authentic Catholicism. If but one finds this to have made a positive impact in his life, it shall all be worth it! But we will be careful; we don’t wish to have a negative effect on anyone!!!