OpenCatholic - Website, News, Points of a Compass in the Path

Things are up in the air, being things, aloft. Actions aloft. Birds & butterflies painted with name and intention.

I am convinced to do and do more, and to do as I should do; moreover, to do as I believe should be done. Perhaps I trust the doing. That one should do? Yes. That what I do is right? No, but that I should do, yes.

I should ground this post. I will ground this post!

I have set up an OpenCatholic website. The doing is good. But the twin, or anterior effect is to see my religious experience playing out in the here and now under the umbrella of what I can say on behalf of forever. So, I am present, but hardly alone, even as the site, like this blog, should hardly make ripple in world of eternal truths.

Catholic. Being Catholic. I am an open Catholic; I am open about being Catholic. In the self-same breath, I believe that the Catholic mission is one of being open to all, Catholic or no - the universe of all humanity, past, present, and future - abiding by the tenets of Catholicism or not. All under the love and praise of God.

So, I am very happy. I am grateful to the Lord. I am delighted to have this strange opportunity to write and play out whatever you might call this work, this mission - it's purpose and point. I can hardly suggest goals or outcomes independent of, well - independent at all! We do nothing if only we can point the way of the Lord. To feel yourself in that...work, gesture, dance, cataclysm...is a great gift.

We offer ourselves to the Lord at every Mass. We do so in the act of contrition, in the offerings, in the prayers of intention, in the Eucharist. This gets to be a habit, and it is a healthful habit. To say, I am here and I am yours. I am entirely yours, Lord.

For my part, such repetitions serve to make everything plain and clear. There are no lingering doubts or regrets with having made oneself fully culpable and available for the work of the moment.

So, the blog, the website. I hope to help to freshen the mission. I hope it's fun and rich. I hope all kinds of things, all the while praising God and asking for his forgiveness.

OpenCatholic. The term makes perfect sense to me. What would one exclude?