A Father’s Love by Martina Caffrey

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“God is love, and he who abides in love abides in God, and God abides in him…We love because he first loved us.”
1 John 4: 16, 19

God the Father loves us deeply and unconditionally. He sent us His Son Jesus Christ to show us His love for us. Through His coming to earth as a Man and through His death on the Cross, Jesus fulfilled the hope of the Jewish religion and laid the foundations for His Church on earth. This faith has been handed down to us through the Apostles led by St. Peter, the Rock, and his successors in the One Holy Catholic and Apostolic Church. It is in this Catholic faith that God shows us His love through the sacraments, graces and blessings He has bestowed on us. In this book, the central beliefs of the Catholic faith are explained and we see how the love of God for us and our love for Him shine through in these beliefs. This book is a stepping stone to those who wish to begin their study of the beliefs of the Catholic Church. It is a guide to those who are seeking the Truth in the hope that it will awaken a desire to learn more. It is the voice of a young Catholic speaking to the young and young at heart of the joys and love of God that exist in the Catholic faith.

“The consciousness that, in Christ, God has given himself for us, even unto death, must inspire us to live no longer for ourselves but for him, and, with him, for others. Whoever loves Christ loves the Church, and desires the Church to be increasingly the image and instrument of the love which flows from Christ.”
Deus Caritas Est, Pope Benedict XVI

About the Author

The author is a young woman in her late 20’s who lives in Co. Meath. She was raised a Catholic and still has a strong belief in the Catholic faith. Like many others, she questioned her faith in her teenage years. After several spiritual experiences she sought the answers to her doubts by reading more deeply into the beliefs of the Catholic Church in order for her to see if she accepted and agreed with these beliefs. It was in her examination of the beliefs of the Catholic Church that she found an enriched and fulfilling basis for the love of God that she wished to express in her life. She started to practice her faith with a deeper knowledge and love of God as she now understood the reasoning and spirituality behind the beliefs and practices she had been taught in the Catholic Church.
She completed an honours degree in Communication Studies in 2005 during which she wrote a thesis examining the attitudes of young people towards the Catholic Church. She found a lack of knowledge and misunderstanding of the beliefs of the Catholic Church and wished to instruct others to correct this. From 2006 until 2008 she wrote monthly articles in a traditional Catholic magazine, The Hibernian Magazine, on the beliefs of the Catholic faith. These articles were well received by the readers and upon the closure of the magazine she decided to write A Father’s Love in continuation of her work. She is seeking to correct the misconceptions surrounding the beliefs of the Catholic faith, especially among her fellow youth, in response to a call by the late Pope John Paul II who asked young people to go out and evangelise their fellow youth in the joys of the Catholic faith.

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