Here at St. Clare, we divide our active parish life, parish ministries and apostolates, into three categories: Come to Know, Come to Love, and Come to Serve. This is based on the Baltimore Catechism, which states the answer to the question of “Why did God make you?” is “God made me to know Him, to love Him, and to serve Him in this world, and to be happy with Him for ever in heaven.” Our path to sanctity is simply to live these three paths well.
Apostolates are services of mercy towards our neighbor, honoring Jesus’ command to love our neighbor more than ourselves.