Random thoughts from the Catholic seminary....

After interning at Christlife for my last year at UMBC I now have the privelege of studying at St. Mary's Seminary in Baltimore. The more I study here the more frequently I am struck by the counter-cultural nature of living in a Catholic seminary. Indeed, the more I study the history of philosophy, the more I see how the architects of the present age sought to fashion a society in which God is removed from the public consciousness. Yet, in spite of 500 years of Western Civilization seeking to uproot itself from it Christian past, faith survives. When reality finally hits and the rubber meets to road we cannot help but turn our eyes heavenward and ask the most fundamental questions of our human existence. At the end of the day when we survey the contemporary culture, we still observe the deepest human hunger, the hunger for God, unsatisfied. The tragedy of our postmodern civilization is that the deepest needs of man remain unmet as we seek to numb ourselves to the pain of existence with our ingenious technology. Yet, our human condition remains and we stand in need of a savior. Thanks be to God 2000 years ago God revealed himself in a way that can never be silenced. In becoming man and living, dying, and rising among us, Jesus Christ touched the deepest needs of the human heart with the incredible beauty of incarnate love. No matter what trials and tribulations we face in our present age, Jesus is and always will be the man who loves and lives.