1st session of CAFE

So, every Tuesday, starting today, I am attending a course called CaFE which stands for Catholic Faith Exploration. It is initiated by the Catholic Evangelization Services (CES) in US. Basically, what we are doing is watching video presentation comprises of talks and followed by group discussion/sharing session.

I enjoyed the 1st session very much. The talk is presented by DaVid Payne, the Director of CES. Some points from his talk :
- what makes you a Christian is not the outside, but inside. It is true that outside is easier to be seen, but it is also important to make sure that the inside is fulfilled.
- our head and heart are only inches away but yet they are like thousand miles apart. Maybe we know God by our knowledge, but that does not mean He is inside our heart as well.
- everybody needs a time to rest from all the busyness of life. Let the spirit catches up with our body and mind.
- there is a void in the heart which only God can fulfill. In fact, He should be the centre of our whole life, which means we need to let him take over and reign in our life. and That's when the fullness of life comes into place
- We need to give God more space and time.

Then he talked about the whole salvation history from the beginning of creation, how human beings fell into sins, how God the Father worked in Old Testament time through all His prophets, how God himself came down to earth to bear the sins of mankind from the past, present, and future, the fact that we are buried with all our sinful nature and be born again with jesus' ressurection through baptism, how He sends His Holy Spirit, the divine person to be our Helper, and how we are now at nearly the end of this salvation mystery, when we are waiting with expectant faith and hope for the second coming of Jesus in glory, to judge all the living and the dead with love, and to invite and unite us once again with our creator in heaven, in our Father's mansion which is already prepared for us.

It is kinda interesting how He talked about the whole bible in only 6.5 minutes. haha. So for the next 6 sessions we will go through these topics :
1. Knowing God better (today)
2. Knowing God's Love
3. Knowing God;s forgiveness
4. Knowing God's Help
5. Knowing God's Word
6. Knowing God's Spirit
7. Knowing God's Hope

Hopefully, I can attend all these sessions, it is time for me to be reminded, explore more, and come back home :) Thanks God for calling me BACK HOME...