What does it mean to be a practicing Catholic?

Concretely, what does it actually take to live the Catholic faith?

The purpose of human life is to know, love, and serve God so that we can be happy with Him forever in the next life.

He’s designed us to become the version of ourselves that can accomplish this. That version is what we call a “saint.”

A saint is simply the real you. It’s your true self, minus woundedness and evil.

We become saints by actually living our faith. The Living the Faith Series is designed to help us do this concretely in the world.

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