He has risen! We are still in the Easter season. Can you believe that?! Fifty days of celebration to be concluded by tomorrows feast of Pentecost! Come Holy Spirit! I am currently flying toward Atlanta on a mission trip to Nicaragua to help out a lay missionary evangelist, Paul Rush. With me are nine young men from CYE’s summer staff ready and willing to give themselves whole-heartedly for a few days in the mission of the Gospel. Remarkable.
In all our separate ways, we are living out that mission in the capacity that the Lord calls us. We must be bold and that means we must be confident in our faith. Pope Francis declared in a recent homily: (as i go backwards on the marta into Atlanta!
Paul is a nuisance: he is a man who, with his preaching, his work, his attitude irritates others, because testifying to Jesus Christ and the proclamation of Jesus Christ makes us uncomfortable, it threatens our comfort zones – even Christian comfort zones, right? It irritates us. The Lord always wants us to move forward, forward, forward ... not to take refuge in a quiet life or in cozy structures, no?... And Paul, in preaching of the Lord, was a nuisance. But he had deep within him that most Christian of attitudes: Apostolic zeal. He had its apostolic zeal. He was not a man of compromise. No! The truth: forward! The proclamation of Jesus Christ, forward!
For the past 10 years, as a seminarian and a priest, I have had the priveledge of encouraging youth and young adults to remain engaged in their Catholic faith. Increasingly, it is difficult to do so as our culture becomes more secular. The very word secular means, “without God.” But you know as well as I do that we need Him. He loves us and has a plan for our salvation, for eternal life.
CYE is designed to make you firm in your faith and be confident in it’s proclamation. This fall I invite YOU, if you are over 18 years old to be strengthened in your faith through the MISSIONARY INTERNSHIP Our goal is to have 18 young adults in a pre-formative intermediary community living and breathing your Catholic faith so you can go deeper in your relationship with Christ. Will you consider joining the missionary internship for a 9-month lived sacramental encounter with the Risen Lord! My hope is that you will!
Enclosed, you will find a detailed description of CYE’s missionary internship, the brand new curriculum, our year schedule and application. If God is calling you or you know someone who may be called to enter into formation specifically for young adults, please don’t hesitate to email: fatherquinn@cyexpeditions.org or call my cell 920-312-0070. Pentecost is upon us! A new SPIRIT of love, grace and mercy. An opportunity to charge minds and hearts to Christ Jesus! He has TRULY risen!
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