Publicizing the Good

Last night I attended a farewill gathering for a young Marine who leaves for Afghanistan next Monday for a 7-8 month tour of duty. He is a combat engineer and will no doubt be involved in activities that could be dangerous. He has total trust in God and his playful spirit has set the goal for playing soccer with Afghanistani children, which might be the key to unraveling this formidable Gordian Knot.
Two of his friends were there to bid him farewell. These young men are in their early twenties...22,23...One had already served in a refugee camp in Rwanda when he was nineteen, and had an experience there that is shaping the course of his life, more than his Harvard education. The other is a philosophy major at the University of Beijing, and is looking at the effects materialism on faith.
All three are solid young men whose honesty, integrity, generous hearts, and willingness to insert themselves into the dark side of human experience in order to bring light give HOPE for the future. These are the people we don't read about or hear about in the media, but whose stories should be told. I offer them to you as a refreshing slice of daily bread as models for todays youth, and the type of person we hope to send forth from Central Catholic in order to fulfill our vision of making this world a better place.
Let us pray and trust that we will, with the guidance of the Holy Spirit, be able to accomplish this goal.
Bro. Rene