While treasuring what has gone before us, and understanding our organic and essential connection with it, we grow in the present and into the future. This exhibit shows us the creative power of God at work through faith in the hearts of real men and real women who believe. We can do no less in our time. To express the indescribable mystery of the Divine in the limited material of our present age and culture is the invitation and the urgent task. We cannot be content to be relegated to the sidelines, as the contemporary mind-set tends to do.
Catholic faith is never purely private, purely personal.
It is a public truth. Jesus Christ is real, a genuine presence in history. At one concretely identifiable moment in time, He entered human history. But his presence in human history goes way beyond the bounds and limits of the earthly existence of one man. His is a continuing presence in the mysterious power of the Holy Spirit who animates and shapes the Church as the real sacrament of his real presence today.