A Parish Catechist

The assertion that “we are all radically incomplete” – a statement quoted by Timothy Radcliffe – is the what I’ve grabbed onto from his series of opening reflections for the synod meetings in Rome last October (and, he said, “we all need each other”)..

Many of us are aware of our own inadequacies. We only need to read the news and reflect on our own selves to see that “we are all radically incomplete.”

In response to this, society would have us increase our life skills and “build up our self-esteem.” “I am enough.” In Christianity:

• We acknowledge being radically incomplete as a fundamental aspect of our humanity.
• We recognize that it is in God that “we live and move and have our being” (Acts 17:28).

God is complete. We are God’s daughters and sons. God loves us. When we allow God to live in us – “It is no longer I but God who lives in me” (Galatians 2:20) – we experience the rest of Galatians 2:20: “The life I now live in the body, I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me.”

It is in allowing God to “live and move within us” that God’s completeness – coupled with God’s love – heals us and makes us whole. This is beautiful.

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