October 27, 2008 – Fr. Jeremiah J. Cullinane, DMIN, College Chaplain

Religion is usually a group of people gathering together to worship God and to explore their need to understand life’s tragedies, mysteries, and injustices through belief in a transcendent person. There is a process through which people often travel to arrive at a complete and full acceptance of God as this transcendent person: needs become wants, wants become interests, interests become realities. At the end of this process the love of a transcendent God becomes the only reality that makes sense of human life and of all creation. It is at this point that we become capable of loving God with our whole heart, mind, and soul, and our neighbor as ourselves.