Wonder

Every human life was created to participate in an intimate relationship with the living God. Through the Person of Jesus Christ, God’s living presence can be personally encountered, touched and experienced in the Catholic Church. This happens through the divine love offered by a person who has allowed Christ to live in him or her, a person who has become a part of his living Body.

Where is the evidence?
There are many wonder-full people, communities and missions that manifest the glory and presence of the Body of Christ “fully alive” and passionately loving every human person. Over the next few months, we’ll be posting these glimpses of wonder here on this site.

Where we’ve seen wonder
Read this short article, and ponder why: “Ben…attracted the kind of attention that might be otherwise reserved for a quarterback on game day… ‘Yo, Ben, my man, what’s up?’ ”

P.S. Send us the sites you’ve found, too!

"I see the beauty of your grace, I contemplate its radiance, I reflect its light; I am caught up in its ineffable splendor; I am taken outside myself as I think of myself; I see how I was and what I have become. O wonder! I am vigilant, I am full of respect for myself, of reverence and of fear, as I would be were I before you; I do not know what to do, I am seized by fear, I do not know where to sit, where to go, where to put these members which are yours; in what deeds, in what works shall I use them, these amazing divine marvels!”
— from John Paul II, Vita Consacreta, 20, quoting Symeon, the new theologian

“The bee knows the secret of its beehive, the ant knows the secret of its anthill, but man does not know his own secret — the structure of a human being is a free relationship with the infinite, and therefore, it has no limits. It bursts through the walls of any place within which one would want to restrain it.”
— Msgr. Luigi Giussani, The Religious Sense

“God, infinitely perfect and blessed in himself, in a plan of sheer goodness freely created man to make him share in his own blessed life. For this reason, at every time and in every place, God draws close to man. He calls man to seek him, to know him, to love him with all his strength. He calls together all men, scattered and divided by sin, into the unity of his family, the Church. To accomplish this, when the fullness of time had come, God sent his Son as Redeemer and Savior. In his Son and through him, he invites men to become, in the Holy Spirit, his adopted children and thus heirs of his blessed life.”
— Catechism of the Catholic Church 1

Truly you have formed my inmost being;
You knit me in my mother’s womb.
I give you thanks that I am fearfully, wonderfully made;
Wonderful are your works.
— Psalm 139