Serving Christ and Connecting Catholics in Western North Carolina
Some time ago, in the feverish throes of buying a book for a good friend’s birthday, I had an epiphany. Wrapping the book in colored paper and neatly nestling it in the gift bag, my wife asked me what I had purchased. After naming the book and smiling at my own thoughtfulness, my wife quipped, “Ah. You bought him a gift, not a present.” Momentarily flummoxed, I had to ask her what she meant. “Well,” she explained, “a gift is something you want them to have; a present is something they actually want.”
A member of the 20s-30s group at St. Peter Church and I have been involved in a Teen Lenten Program through video conferencing. The topic is Jesus’ saving questions.