Jack Shick

I first wrote this book,” A Faith Worth Living”, in 2016 after attending a retreat entitled “Christ Renews his Parish”. I wrote the book originally as my attempt to promote an evangelization of the church and an attempt to pass on my understanding of the faith to my children and others who had left the church. It was also a penance of sorts for having left the church in 2002 when the scandals rocked our faith. I also saw a world that was spiraling downward and turning it’s back on God and wanted to help people find their way back.

The book sat unpublished until the latest scandals again surfaced. I saw it as my duty, this time around to help people realize just why they were Catholics and to help build a dam against another exodus from the church because it had been such a destructive decision in my own life.

The sub-title, “Now More than ever”, really has 2 meanings. First, I believe that it will be by a growth of faith that we will revers the ever downward spiral that the world finds itself in. Second, for Catholics it is a reminder that now is not the time to walk away. Doing anything else will only result in our own self destruction. We are told to “Be a light to the world” and this book is my light and I place it on the lampstand for all to see. I hope it will allow you to place yours there also and perhaps together we can change the world.