Praise be to God! Each day, I pray for a daily conversion and Tom, I can honestly say I have had already had one. Up until now, it seemed to me that blogging was just a way for people to vent and complain to the whole world. Now I see from your blog that there is a good use for them…thanks for converting me...maybe I will start some good (or some may think trouble) with one some day!

With regard to your Narnia talk a few comments. Over the weekend at the beach retreat, one of your friends was wondering out loud if you were going to be able to pull this off without just pointing out the obvious. I did not know you and really had no expectations going into it, but loved the film and C.S. Lewis so thought the talk would be interesting nevertheless so I came.

I was pleasantly surprised. Your talk was entrenched with your faith and was not simply an academic style lecture. Not only did you directly use the Gospel accounts that correlate with the happenings of the film, but you also infused Paul’s words to the Romans that have impacted your faith so deeply. Romans in a difficult book...usually only Protestant pastors take up that book so you should be commended! Commended for using it and picking it apart so that you are able to grow closer in your faith and draw others in it...which that is the point of your talk, wasn’t it? Your talk was not to just point out obvious between a fictional film and scripture, but it was a call to a deeper faith, a deeper trust in God...and this faith and trust calls us to action. Don’t you think that was his purpose when C.S. Lewis wrote all that he did? Do we believe he just wrote all he did for just entertainment purposes? I doubt it.

Thanks also for bringing in the philosophy and Natural Law business. To be honest, I was not thinking about this when I watched the movie so you were not pointing out the obvious here. Great job last night.

Bless you. May God continue to use you as an instrument of His grace. Tom (and whoever is still reading), please pray that my faith may become like a child’s.

In His service,
Kathryn

Kathryn,

Thanks for the comments, and praise be to God indeed!

Romans is a great book, and not to be ignored. It's on my short list of the "most important" books in the Bible (if such a list indeed exists). It has most of the elements of what some Biblical scholars call "Paul's gospel," unlike most of Paul's other writings. That is, it's an all-Paul-in-one-place book (or close to it).

Thanks again for your great comments, and if you are looking for some other great Catholic blogs, I can point out a few of my favorites.

Tom