“What are you looking for?” This is the question that Jesus asks two men who are intrigued by him after they hear John the Baptist call him the Lamb of God. So many of us are searching for something in our lives. So many feel unfulfilled. Many try to fill a void in their lives with other things: drugs, alcohol, music, video games, entertainment, pleasure, or even work. Many of these things are not bad in themselves in moderation, if we don’t make them our idols or our gods. Yet, if we are looking for something in our life, our faith is where we will find it.
Yet, we won’t always get an answer to all the questions we have. Many times we will have to walk by faith. We are to learn. We are to grow. On our journey of faith, the journey itself is important.
We celebrate St Elizabeth Ann Seton today. She was born in an Episcopalian here in North America in the late 18th century before we were even an independent country. She became Catholic after the death of her husband while on a trip to Italy. Her own father was a great example of someone who lived a life of charity toward others. Elizabeth Ann Seton gives us a great example of faith today as the first American born Catholic to be beatified, as the founder of the first American religious community for women, the Sisters of Charity, as the founder of the first American parish-affiliated Catholic school, and the first American Catholic orphanage. What are you looking for? Elizabeth Ann Seton answered this question by the life of faith that she lived in service to God and in service to her brothers and sisters. We have to answer this same question with our own lives of faith.
We celebrate St Elizabeth Ann Seton today. She was born in an Episcopalian here in North America in the late 18th century before we were even an independent country. She became Catholic after the death of her husband while on a trip to Italy. Her own father was a great example of someone who lived a life of charity toward others. Elizabeth Ann Seton gives us a great example of faith today as the first American born Catholic to be beatified, as the founder of the first American religious community for women, the Sisters of Charity, as the founder of the first American parish-affiliated Catholic school, and the first American Catholic orphanage. What are you looking for? Elizabeth Ann Seton answered this question by the life of faith that she lived in service to God and in service to her brothers and sisters. We have to answer this same question with our own lives of faith.
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