Live Your Faith 

   “If you don’t live what you believe, you will end up believing what you live.” (Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen) 

   How many people outside of Church know of  your faith?  Do your co-workers or non-practicing friends?  If you aren’t living your faith in all you do in life, how can they see it in you?

   There are far too many “Sunday” Christians, not to mention those who only see the inside of a Church on Easter and Christmas.  The lukewarm, those who are complacent in their faith are those who Christ said will be “vomited out of my mouth” (Rev 3: 16).

   Faith is not a part time thing; it is to be the guide for all we do in life.  If our faith is restricted to the few hours we spend at Mass each week it cannot flourish, it cannot give us the direction we so desperately need in this sinful world in which we live.

   Our faith, and the way we practice it in the world, is also the primary means by which each of us can be a witness for God, an evangelist to those who do not have Him in their life.  We may very well be the only example of a faith-filled life they will ever see.  We have a very real obligation to share the faith of the Lord wherever we can and the way we do that is by living that faith in the world.

   As Christians we are called to be prophets, those who speak the word of God.  Though  we are not priests and pastors we are still to spread the good news of the gospel.  The way we can do that is the way St. Francis of Assisi advised his brother Franciscans, “preach the gospel at all times, when necessary, use words.”