Finale

The time has come to close the book on FYCV.  It has been a pleasure and a privilege to have served St. Rose of Lima parish in this modest way.  A heartfelt thank you to Cheryl Jensen for her inspiration and encouragement that originated this weekly column.  Additionally, there is deep gratitude for all the expressions of appreciation from several parishioners during the run of this column. 

FYCV concludes with the following:

"We wish to confirm… that the task of evangelizing all people constitutes the essential mission of the Church. She exists in order to evangelize…”  

Evangeli Nuntandi, Pope Paul VI

“Faith and reason are like two wings on which the human spirit rises…” 

Pope St. John Paul II

“The difficulty of explaining ‘why I am a Catholic’ is that there are ten thousand reasons all amounting to one reason: that Catholicism is true.”   G. K. Chesterton.

Faith is a gift from God. Reasons are a gift from an evangelist; shared, as St. Peter tells us, “with gentleness and respect.” 

I pray you "Find your Catholic voice."

In Christ, Ken Donajkowski.