On Soccer and Catechesis
Thursday, February 20, 2025
Catechizing my children as Spurs supporters is basically parallel to their catechesis into the Christian way: Both are a citizenship that leads to some daily joys and many momentary sorrows. For both, the true reward is mostly found on a distant shore. That is, when the spurs saints go marching in. Neither are solely achieved through reading a book. But both involve the ever-increasing embodiment of a story. If I don’t fully embrace either of these myself, there is zero earthly reason for my children to do the same.
