The Catholic Writers Guild

In today’s culture we have a tendency to look at the events of our lives and define them with a precise beginning and an end.  This is particularly true of our holiday events.  We plan and prepare for the Easter meal and make sure we have gotten sufficient chocolate bunnies, marshmallow chicks, jelly beans and trinkets for the kids’ baskets. Mass starts the holiday and it ends when the last chick has been eaten.  Now we’re done and with a sigh of relief the next “big thing” we have to think about is 4^th of July.

This is an easy trap to fall into. Most of society thinks that way.  But you call yourself Catholic, right?  If that is the truth of your life maybe you need to re-consider.  Catholicism is not a way of life that goes from event to event.  It’s more like the lens that we peer through to focus everything we do.  As a writer who creates ideas, this is an even more significant responsibility.  “[W]e who have put on Christ and eaten at his banquet table turn in love toward all those who are without food for body or spirit and freely give what we have been so richly given, proclaiming with joy the Christ whom we have come to know in his sacramental gifts.”  (Magnificat, Vol.14, No.2, April 2012, p.59.)

As avowed proclaimers (writers) we are invested with an ongoing duty to bring this information to the world. We don’t begin or end our thinking based on where dinner is at, or who will be invited to the feast this year.  Instead, we have the miracle of the Easter explosion constantly on our minds.  It is our joy to bring that light always. We especially take note of all the spots where the light hasn’t been seen in a long while.  The power of writing can do that.  It carries our message to places that we can’t be physically.   For we writers , duty calls all  of the time.  Alleluia.