This week on the R.C.I.A. Journey…
Humans are natural-born storytellers. From the nights when primitive peoples gathered around a flickering campfire to discuss the tribe’s mammoth hunt, to today’s blogs about our cats and dinners, we share the stories of our lives with almost anyone who will listen. We do so for many reasons, but one of the most important is that we want to know that our lives have meaning and significance. We tell our stories so that we can feel like our existence is not in vain.
 
The story of salvation, which we profess in the Creed, is, as the famous movie title says, “The Greatest Story Ever Told.” That great story assures us that there is a purpose to life and a reason for our own lives. It tells us that we aren’t merely spectators to the passage of time. From the beginning of history when our first parents rebelled against God, through the death and resurrection of his Son, Jesus, God has been writing his plan of salvation. We each have God-given roles to play in that story and if we refuse God’s loving invitation, the entire world is poorer. The reality is that God’s story of love isn’t complete without each one of us.
 
What’s your role in this great story? Are you ready to accept it? These are some of the important questions you will explore with your participants in this week’s session on the story of salvation.
 
Please join us on Thursday night at 7 pm in the Parish Center as we discuss:
  THE STORY OF SALVATION: Creation, Fall and Redemption
This week’s video/discussion will center on:
   The three major parts in the story of salvation:
                 Creation, Fall, and Redemption
  How originally we were united with God and experienced harmony within the human family
 
How sin broke our unity and left us with an inclination toward sin, called concupiscence How Jesus came to restore us to the Father, but also to establish the Catholic Church to gather the broken family of humanity into the united family of God