Today’s Readings include John 20: 19-31. It concludes with a powerful reason for those seeking fuller faith to be Catholics.
“Now, Jesus did many other signs in the presence of his disciples that are not written in this book. But these are written that you may come to believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God, and that through this belief you may have life in his name.”
Catholics have been given the grace to “connect the dots”. They connect that passage to John, 6: 53. “If you do not eat My Body and drink My Blood, you do not have life in you.”
The first “dot” to be connected is “through this belief you may have life in His name.” Those who believe more fully than connect that belief to what He said we must do to have life in us. “If you do not eat My Body and drink My Blood you do not have life in you.”
Many stare blankly before turning away. A few sputter the usual justifications for lesser belief. Catholics can connect the dots.
Nearly all of us have been given the intellectual ability to connect those two dots. Most don’t. Vanities, individual demons and imps, keep the vain from making the obvious, logical connection.
Worse, the lost souls then make excuses for not connecting the dots. They fall farther from belief, obedience and the love He provides.
Too bad for them. Catholics can connect the dots. Most can do so. Many choose not to. Such vanity hurts.
