Welcome
to Lux Mundi, a Catholic blog written by Catholic youth for everyone.
This
is our first ever post! We thought we would take this opportunity to set out
the basics: who we are, what we believe, how this blog came about, and what we
intend to do.
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!!!
In
all sincerity thank you for visiting this page and we hope you will return. We
will pray for you.
God
Love You,
AMDG
Peter
James d`Aquino
Memorial of Saint Joachim and
Saint Anne, parents of the Blessed Virgin, 2012. Ad Iesum Per Mariam
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