Who would have thought that peanut butter, jelly, mustard, cheese and pretzels would make a good sandwich? Today I experienced this, trusting our dear web developer that this would not send my taste buds and stomach away screaming. As I looked at this gooey concoction, I did not want to take a bite, but I did, and you know what…..It was really good! I may even have one for lunch tomorrow.

An unlikely combination of tastes really turned out to be great. Isn’t our faith similar? You may have heard it said that there is joy in suffering, that many graces come from fasting, if you wait to have sex until you’re married it’s going to be awesome and if you follow Christ even when it’s hard you will be happy.

Our society tells us none of this makes sense, but once you take even just a bite of what our faith has to offer, you can’t stop eating. You become drawn in and you eat up all that you can even if you feel full.

So when you look at Catholicism you may see some things you do not want to bite into, but trust me… it’s gonna be great… take a bite and chew on it for a while. I bet you’ll go back for seconds, perhaps even thirds. Eat up!