Lux Mundi: My Little Way

Saturday, August 11, 2012

My Little Way

My favorite Saint is by far Saint Therese Of The Child Jesus. She has been a wonderful inspiration in my life. I can truly say that reading her book The Story of a Soul completely changed my life. I highly recommend it to everyone it is truly amazing. She answered the question that I had be longing for to find, that everyone can be a saint in their own little way. We don’t have to be another Mother Theresa or John Paul II to become saints. We don’t have to do big, impressive things. We can just offer little sacrifices whenever we can. “The Little Way” is what she puts out for people to live, a way of life that can make an ordinary person a saint.

Saint Therese died at the age of 24 from tuberculosis. She was only known to the other cloistered Carmelite nuns that she lived her life with. This little known person would become one of the greatest saints in the 20^th century. Her autobiography would spread throughout the world to various places in different languages. By 1925, about 28 years after her death, she was canonized a saint. Her life was truly beautiful, but at the same time little.

This incredible saint has touched the life of millions of people. Please be one of them and read her book. You will not regret it. To end I would like to offer my favorite quote from her book. This truly sums up the little way: “Jesus does not look so much at the greatness of our actions, or even at their difficulty, as at the love with which we do them”.

AMGD
God Is Love,
Peter Martin

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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!!!