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Topic 11: What Else Is There?

Behind YOUCAT
When the American novelist Walker Percy was asked
why he became a Catholic, his reply was, What else is
there? You and I might be tempted to reply, Plenty.
But ultimately, is that so? If God is real and we were
made for happiness with him, in the end there really
isnt anything else. Everything else must be
understood in the light of God, who alone can make us
truly happy. Blessed Charles de Foucauld said, After I
recognized there is a God, it was impossible for me not
to live for him alone. In the end, the persons and
things of this life either take us back to God, or they
take us away from him. Those who recognize this and
commit themselves accordingly we call saints.

Read YOUCAT
84-85
147-150

What Does YOUCAT Say?

1. According to number 146, what is the
communion of saints?
2. Number 147 describes the Assumption;
what happened to Mary at the end of
her life?
3. Can Mary really help us more than any
other saint (numbers 147-148)?
4. How can a priest forgive sins (number
150)?

What Does the Bible Say?

1. Read Ephesians 4: 14-16. How must we
live to be build up in love?
2. Read John 2: 1-12. How does the
wedding at Cana reveal Marys role in
the lives of Jesus followers? What does
Mary tell us servants to do?
3. Read Luke 1:46-55. What do we call
this prayer? How have Marys words
been fulfilled and continue to be
fulfilled in the Church today?

YOU Chat
1. Is everyone called to be a saint?
2. With whom are we in communion?
How do we live out and intensify that
communion?
3. Who is Mary in your life?
4. What is the Rosary, and how can it help
us become holy (number 149)?

YOU Reflect
How well do you know the saints? Can you picture
yourself becoming a saint? For some people, even
for some Catholics, the idea of becoming a saint
seems boring. Yet the Lives of the Saints are filled
with very different and universally fascinating people.
All of us are made for happiness, and studying their
lives we find though they often struggled to
overcome personal weakness and sin the saints are
the only truly happy persons. More to the point, each
of us will ultimately return to God and therefore
become saints, or we will face eternity without God
and thus, without meaning, purpose, love, or
happiness. So lets get started now on becoming
saints ourselves.

YOU Reflect
1. When you think of the idea of a saint,
what images come into your mind?
Why?
2. What do you think is the biggest
mistake people make about saints?
3. How are ultimate happiness and being
a saint linked together?

YOU Challenge
Pray: Pray the Rosary with your family
this week or on your own for the souls in
purgatory.
Learn: Memorize the mysteries of the
Rosary.
Ask: Pray to your guardian angel and your
patron saint, asking them to help you
know and love them and Jesus better?
Go: Confess your sins to a priest this
week, especially if it has been longer than