What is Your Fruit? - By Fr. Patrick Cahill

So dear friends, when it comes to our walk with the Lord, when it comes to our faith as Catholics, what in general do you think people would say if we were to ask, what do you have to do to be Catholic? What must you do to be Catholic? What do you do? What's the general answer? Not necessarily your answer, you're slightly advanced, but in general out there, what would people say? What do you do to be Catholic? Go to Mass.

Go to Mass is pretty much it.

So it's kind of presumed you're baptized, but after that, in order to follow the Lord, and it wouldn't even be phrased that way, in order to be Catholic, you just have to go to Mass.

Now again, there's nothing wrong with that.

Please do.

That's a good thing.

We are required to go to Mass once a week on Sundays.

But there's a bit of an issue there with reducing the faith just to that.

Because going to Mass on Sunday, while it's good and it's necessary, there's a little more to it than that.

Following the Lord involves an awful lot more than just Sunday Mass.

Again, keep in mind, Sunday Mass, yes, please do.

Continue to do that.

We're required to.

But we can't reduce our faith to that.