Devotion

[pyrodude208]

So I am to be the Chaplain at a conference next month. It is going to be a conference of high schoolers, some of whom are Catholic, but most of whom are not.

I am looking for a devotion topic that I can deliver so that I can accomplish two things. First, I want to relate it to the conference (it’s a youth government thing, so maybe somehting about taking charge in your community…). Second, I want to have a little bit of Catholicism in there, but not anything that will shut out people who disagree with the Catholic faith. I want to expose people to enough of it to intrigue them, but not to make them think that I am using this position (which is supposed to be nondenominational) to convert them.

Can anyone recommend some Bible verses for me that I might use in my devotion?

 

[idrum677]

*Give to Ceasar what is Ceasar’s, but give to God, what is God’s. *

Being active civially is a good thing, but not at the expense of your faith or morals. If you profess one thing on Sunday, you need to live it for the 6 other days in the week. Don’t say that I personally believe in something but I take the *opposite stance *in my public life.

In the end, all things belong to God.

 

[LilyM]

I reckon the above sounds good - and at the risk of being biased (I’ve got something of a devotion to him) I’d stick my neck out there and talk about the life and work of St Thomas More.

About how he was indeed a great statesman, and a great rolemodel in so many ways for those wanting to work in government or the law - but above all ‘the King’s good servant but God’s first’, as he said, and how he gave his life to stick to those priorities.

Believe it or not, I’ve heard even a few Anglicans say they admire him too - but then there is a tendency among Anglicans today to want to distance themselves from Henry VIII whose marital woes helped kickstart the Church of England in the first place.

Perhaps in these days where strict separation of Church and state is seen as desirable, they don’t like the level of interference and influence Henry exerted in matters religious, unlike Queen Liz in our present day