Why Did God Make Us?

 

 

 

Why Did God Make Us?

 

Remember the Baltimore Catechism?  If you do you will understand immediately, and if you don’t read these short questions and answers, they are true and enlightening.

 

1. Q. Who made the world? 

A. God made the world.

2. Q. Who is God?   

A. God is the Creator of heaven and earth, and of all things.

3. Q. What is man?   

A. Man is a creature composed of body and soul, and made to the image and likeness of God.

6. Q. Why did God make you?   

A. God made me to know Him, to love Him, and to serve Him in this world, and to be happy with Him for ever in heaven.

 

 

 

 

 

St. Ignatius of Loyola wrote, "Man was created for a certain end. This end is to praise, to reverence and to serve the Lord his God and by this means to arrive at eternal salvation. All other beings and objects that surround us on the earth were created for the benefit of man and to be useful to him, as means to his final end; hence his obligation to use, or to abstain from the use of, these creatures, according as they bring him nearer to that end, or tend to separate him from it."

[The Spiritual Exercises of St. Ignatius, St. Ignatius of Loyola, p.18]

 

 

Today’s Catholic Catechism answers the same question this way in #27: “The desire for God is written in the human heart, because [humans were] created by God and for God; and God never ceases to draw [us] to himself. Only in God will [we] find the truth and happiness he never stops searching for: The dignity of [human beings] rests above all on the fact that [we are] called to communion with God ....”

 

 

Spend a few minutes today thinking about your creator and the wonderful creation you are and reflect God’s love and beauty today.

 

St. Joseph pray for us.

St. Andre Bessette intercede for us.

May God Be Praised!