Intelligence, Comprehension and Understanding

While driving home from Mass yesterday with Cassie my granddaughter who has just turned 9 years old, I experienced the wonder of the gifts of the Lord.

Cassie opened the conversation by asking if Catholics were Christians. I responded yes. But then I asked her why she asked the question. She said that her friend Sarah was a Christian but not a Catholic and that she did not believe in the Eucharist.

I explained to her very brief history of Catholicism, Christianity and that the belief in Eucharist was a primary belief that distinguished Catholic Christians from non-Catholic Christians.

So I summed it up by saying that Catholics are Christians, but not all Christians are Catholic.

Cassie responded with “that is like squares and rectangles because all squares are rectangles but not all rectangles are squares!”