SACCRE

YEsterday (13Aug) I went for the 1st Singapore Archdiocese Catholic Charismatic Renewal Combined Youth Prayer Meet.

It was not extravagant. But simple and effective. Praise the Lord.

Some thoughts I had after the event was.. that it is true that the Catholic Youths today don't know God and have that God-experience, and so many leave the Church after "Confirmation" (the process where we are confirmed as God's believers and empowered with the Holy Spirit) because they don't have a solid personal relationship with the Lord.

Youths today want something real, authentic. "Get Real!" Ads & slogans always say. They want to know the Truth, in a world where every truth is "relative" and no one is supposed to believe in an absolute truth. Even if there was (say JESUS), you'd have no freedom to say it simply because people will comment that we are being preachy or that it's a free world, these "christian" things should be kept at home...

So are we really free people? If we say we are "Free thinkers" are we really free to think what we want or are we thinking what's best for society or what society tells us? Eg... NO RELIGION.

In our increasingly secular society which outphases anything to do with religion/faith, we do not have the choice. If we go with our moralities and values, we are deemed to be conservative, religious, etc.. so is this being "free"?

A free thinker certainly is NOT free! They don't know what to think, what to believe in, so they believe in what's common, normal, secularism.. doing the right things, so that "PERHAPS" God may be pleased with them and they'll have a good life (IF they believe in a God in first place).

I've never done much at debating. but i know at least, I can say that I am free because I am liberated "spiritually". I do not fear for tomorrow because I know it is in God's hands. I do not hold grudges against people because forgiving is liberating and is God's precepts. There's so many aspects about freedom in Christ to talk about. Freedom of our sense of existence.. we know why we are existing. Freedom to praise the Lord. Freedom to live our inheritance in HIM. Freedom to love. Freedom to be different. Freedom to love GOD.

Anyways, I'm leaving it at this.. continue the thoughts another time.. gonna go !!