Handbook for Catholic Parishioners: (And Anyone Searching for Purpose in Life)

By J. P. Briggs

Every person is searching for their God-intended purpose. Those who are never instructed in where to find this, or reject this, are either ignorant or restless souls. The first category represents those who Jesus asks us to find and teach; the second is the one St. Augustine characterized as those whose "hearts cannot rest until they rest in God." The famous theologian Peter Kreeft once explained this comment by St. Augustine to be one of the greatest sentences ever written. He said, it is: "the basic theme of life itself and has two parts. The first is the objective fact, and the second is the subjective experience." St. Augustine, after much exploring in the wrong direction in his early adult life, came to realize that one's relation to God makes one innately like "arrows that must always be moving toward a target or like homing pigeons flying home." Kreeft explains that "God is not only our origin and our owner, He is also our end, our purpose, our destiny, our identity, our meaning, our peace, our joy, our home." It is indeed an objective fact that anyone can know via their own personal experience...but it may first require some soul-filled reflection. This "Handbook" is intended to help this process along for the common Catholic parishioner or just anyone interested in learning what the Catholic Church has to offer. Those who care enough to know about the Catholic faith will be amazed at its truths and will have an increasingly greater desire to know more. The more enriched one's mind becomes, the more inflamed one's heart for God will be. This love of God, Who is love, turns into a yearning to serve Him and others for the love of God.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0DC3DCGKV
• ISBN13: 9798334841888
• Release Date: August 2024
• Publisher: Independently published
• Length: 174 Pages
• Dimensions: 9.0" x 0.4" x 6.0"