Familial
Members of Catholic.Work recognize the domestic church, or little churches of home and family, as the foundational context for conversion and faith in the Gospel. We seek to become “little churches” or domestic churches where faith is nurtured and transmitted.
Vocational
Baptised Christians are all called to glorify God and therein be saved and sanctified. But the way each person is called is unique and in accord with the purposes of God. Catholic.Work exists to support Catholics to encourage one another in responding in faith to their specific call.
Biblical
As a response to purely materialist and atheistic ways of life and activity, we center ours in the Word of God. We promote practices like daily bible reading, reflection on the Liturgy of the Word, Lectio Divina, and liturgical prayer is integral to Christian discipleship
What can I do to participate in the mission of Catholic.Work?
There isn’t a limit to how someone, or a family, or a community, may support or join in mission with Catholic.Work. However, the foundation is a recommitment to one’s baptismal identify in Christ and renewal of baptismal promises at the Easter Vigil.
If an individual or family isn’t yet observing what the Church asks of the faithful, the observance of the five precepts of the Church, they are encouraged to live them in greater fidelity. Once this observance is established for a period of time, we provide resources for continuing to respond to the imperatives of Jesus to repent, be converted, and seek first the Kingdom of God in Christian faith, hope, and love.
This is the foundation for an apostolate that can take many different forms is centered on kerygmatic evangelization and catechesis. It is meant to become our work meaning the activity by which we glorify God and are saved and sanctified.
We see the highest work that man can engage in as the Sacred Liturgy, that is the public worship of the Church of the Most Holy Trinity. This is centered upon the Eucharistic Worship of the Holy Mass and stretches out through the day in the Liturgy of the Hours. For that reason we emphasize participation and prayer of the Liturgy of the Hours prior to private prayer and devotions, which to us are supportive of our corporate worship of God.
You shall have no strange God’s before me…
Returning to the basics of Christian belief in a time of new and strange gods means starting with the first commandment and asking ourselves… what do I sacrifice for? Is it God, or is it tech or capital (for the sake of capital) or is it an image of the body that is materialist in nature? We allow ourselves to be guided but the spirituality of the Church to reorient our desire to it may be completed in the Christ.
