Revisiting the Creed: A good start to the Year of Faith

In preparation for the upcoming 'Year of Faith,' Fr. Andrew Pinsent has been delivering a wonderful series of short homilies on the Creed over at Totus2us.com.  I'd just like to draw your attention to this fabulous series---whether you're a 'cradle Catholic,' a convert, or just someone up for some good thinking, this series helps get us back to the fundamentals. You can find the Creed podcast here:

http://www.totus2us.com/podcasts/sunday-evangelium/

This excerpt comes from the latest installment, given on the first article of the Creed, 'I believe in one God, the Father almighty, maker of heaven and earth.'

_{"Regardless of the success or otherwise of all impersonal substitutes for God, a deeper problem remains. We are ourselves personal beings, and so it is unsatisfactory to propose that whatever created the cosmos is sub-personal. More specifically there is a natural desire not only to know that there is a God, but to know God, to be able to relate to God in a first to second person way, as an 'I' to a 'you'. On this point therefore the denial of a personal God therefore creates unusual dangers for humanity. If God, the Father Almighty, the true God, is denied or rejected, then there is an incompleteness in us, like a house that is left empty. And the problem with leaving a house empty is that it can be occupied by squatters or parasites. To give an example, the lesson of recent centuries is that in those places where Christianity was suppressed, those countries were not left in a state of spiritual neutrality, but tended to end up worshiping something else, often accompanied with a reign of terror."}