Dioceses Day

February 2, 2007

9:05 AM

I am amazed! It is incredible to see the incredible limitlessness of ones faith. Tonight my faith soars. Not as much as other times, like when I have been on Piis (which is not a drug), but I should better say, that tonight I am proud to be a catholic. I am proud to be part of something so universal and so worldwide that brings hundreds upon hundreds of people to gather together for one similar purpose and goal. To celebrate the fact that God is amazing and to unite in that love that gave us life! Well okay relax, Ultimately what I’m trying to say is that tonight was incredible. Over a thousand people gathered tonight from all around Chuuk. Mostly the lagoon islands, and some of the outer ones, but they came by the hoards. Arriving by boat since noon today they game by the hundreds from the Parishes of their home islands, to gather as One Catholic Church. It truly is amazing to see that put into place and perspective. No matter how far or how close we make up the church. Not a building, not a cross, not an altar, not a priest, but a people, a people gathered to celebrate in God’s love, through one another. “Where two or three are gathered…” I think this is what God had in mind. What I am talking about is what people here in Chuuk know as “Diocese Days”. It commemorates the anniversary of the Caroline Islands becoming a Diocese of the Catholic Church. Now in its 27^th year, it is incredible to see what incredible things have happened here in the past 27 years. The faith of the people here is truly alive. Out of the 4 states of the FSM, Chuuk by far has the most devote number of Catholics. I don’t know really how to explain it.

The most incredible thing about it is walking into a church of such incredible colors all over the place. The way it works, is that each Parish gets assigned a color, and wears that color, for example the Cathedral’s color is yellow, Holy Family’s color is White, Macheweichumw Mission’s color is Green and so on and so forth. And so if you go to this parish, you wear your color, and you sit with that parish, and what’s left is a church filled with such a vibrant array of colors every where you look.