Nutrolls = Commitment

As one of our fundraising efforts for the pilgrimage to Madrid, Spain, for World Youth Day in August, our group is making nutrolls.  (We're planning to bake about 300 nutrolls, and, hopefully, about 50 apricot rolls.)  We've done them before, but they seem to be an intense process to make.

One does not simply seem to need enough dough or enough filling to make sure that we have the item to eventually sell, but one also needs to have the people in the kitchen to make all these treats become a reality.  As always, "Many hands make light work!"  This can seem like an overwhelming process if you do not have the people to assist.  In the long run, these nutrolls equal commitment.

The pilgrims who are attending World Youth Day (WYD) from the parish have committed themselves to help not only in the fundraising efforts for the group to get to Spain, but also in assisting the other members of the group in their own preparation for the voyage.  There is a commitment from each of the pilgrims to support, through prayer and action, the others journeying with them to Europe.  And this is a daunting thing when one stops to think about it.  The commitment that I and the other adult leaders have agreed to does not simply begin at one point in time and end at another - we are here to see the preparation of the group, the journey of the group, and the returning of the group home.  We are simply not putting our lives up for grabs for two weeks in Spain; rather, we are entering into a commitment with the other pilgrims that, beginning in the here and now (which already had begun before I arrived here in July), should carry us in a committed relationship of Christian fellowship throughout our lives, whether we remain physically connected or not.  Our group's total commitment to manifesting the Mystical Body of Christ on a physical level within the fraternity that we build amongst ourselves.

And so our nutrolls are simply something more than just a tasty treat which we're trying to sell to raise some money to travel to Spain to be with other Catholics from throughout the world.  Rather, these nutrolls symbolize a deeper commitment in those who bake them - and those who buy them - to support one another in our journey of faith . . . and to help lead each other to the Kingdom of God.  I know in a few days, I will be sick of thinking of and dealing with nutrolls.


But I also know something greater:









Nutrolls are only a small part in the way that we help each other journey in our lives of faith.



Enjoy the journey . . .