I. The Desire for God

From The Catechism of the Catholic Church

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But this “intimate and vital bond of man to God” (GS 19 # 1) can be
forgotten, overlooked, or even explicitly rejected by man.³ Such
attitudes can have different causes: revolt against evil in the world;
religious ignorance or indifference; the cares and riches of this world; the
scandal of bad example on the part of believers; currents of thought hostile to
religion; finally, that attitude of sinful man which makes him hide from God
out of fear and flee his call.⁴

PART ONE: THE PROFESSION OF FAITH