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Human reason and logic are wonderful gifts from God. Without them, we wouldn't be able to survive. And like all the other gifts he has given, God wants to see us develop these as well. He loves watching us apply clear thinking to all aspects of our lives: our families, our work, even our faith. He wants us to learn how to "reason in faith" by taking the truths he has revealed to us and applying them to our own philosophy of life and to the decisions we face every day.
Yet even as God wants us to use our reasoning skills, he also knows that logic alone can be quite limiting. He knows that it defies human logic to believe that simple bread and wine can be transformed into the body and blood of Christ. He knows that it is illogical to hold that the consecrated host remains forever transformed into Christ, even if it is sitting unattended in a tabernacle or is placed in a monstrance for adoration.
It is in situations like these that God asks us to submit our logic, as good as it is, to the revealed truths of faith. And that’s just what we want to do this month. In this special issue of The Word Among Us, we want to ask the Holy Spirit to help us believe more strongly in Jesus’ presence in…
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