Another reason to be Catholic is found in Today’s Reading is from Mark 4: 35-41.
On that day, as evening drew on, Jesus said to his disciples (as He does in every age)
“Let us cross to the other side.” (moving onto His path to Heaven)
Leaving the crowd (those who did not sufficiently believe and obey), they took Jesus with them in the boat just as He was. (Not as they wanted Him to be.)
And other boats were with him. (They are not mentioned, again. We may assume they, early schismatics, were lost.)
A violent squall came up and waves were breaking over the boat,
so that it was already filling up. (The boat in which Peter sits goes through the storms needed to sink the other boats.)
Jesus was in the stern, asleep on a cushion.
They woke him and said to him,
“Teacher, do you not care that we are perishing?”
He woke up,
rebuked the wind,
and said to the sea, “Quiet! Be still!” (When we ask Jesus to help us, He does. Not, usually, until we do so.)
The wind ceased and there was great calm. (The bark of Peter was safe under His protection. Other boats? Gone.)
Then he asked them, “Why are you terrified?
Do you not yet have faith?”
They were filled with great awe and said to one another,
“Who then is this whom even wind and sea obey?” (Yet again, His ability to alter The Program to protect Catholics of all ages was shown to them.)
