Serving Christ and Connecting Catholics in Western North Carolina
Early on in “Gaudium et Spes,” the Pastoral Constitution on the Church in the Modern World, we read: “the Church has always had the duty of scrutinizing the signs of the times and of interpreting them in the light of the Gospel. Thus, in language intelligible to each generation, she can respond to the perennial questions which men ask about this present life and the life to come, and about the relationship of the one to the other.”
Upon entering a large secondhand store, I’m immediately struck by the volume of used clothing. A sea of garments greets you, rack after rack. I’m there to find a cute used flower pot. You know the old saying, “One woman’s trash is another woman’s treasure.”