Team Spiritual Care:Be with People who are Going Someplace



Sister Kateri Theriault






It’s no accident that people often talk about the spiritual life as a faith journey. Early Christians defined themselves as “people of the Way”—recognizing Christ as the Way they were going. Theirs was no static definition of religion that obliged them only to sit still and memorize the facts of faith for later retrieval. They knew that following Jesus implied they were on the move, going somewhere, making progress, changing and growing, hoping to arrive at some magnificent destination. Are you part of the people of the Way today? Or do you tell yourself that being in the pews means you’ve already arrived?

TODAY’S READINGS: Acts 18:23-28; John 16:23b-28 (296)

“Apollos. . . . had been instructed in the Way of the Lord.”

CONTRIBUTORS

Alice Camille, Daniel Grippo, Father Larry Janowski, O.F.M., Ann O’Connor, Siobhán O’Neill, Joel Schorn, Patrice J. Tuohy, Sister Julie Vieira, I.H.M