and contemplative
tradition of the East.
It becomes for him, an antidote
to a crudely materialistic,
manipulative,
over-intellectualized
and egocentric West.
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Nick’s kind ofresilient joyis to consider life,all of life, as a gift,every single day.(Nick Vujicic is 33 years old. He was born with an extremely rare congenital disorder known as Phocomelia, which is characterised by the absence of legs and arms.)(Graphic: Nick Vujicic wirth his wife, Google Bilder) .
Do not allow
intellectual,or cultural biasto influence usaway from the truth.
If we have
set out on thejourney of faith,we will find outthat we will passthrough beautifuland consolinghours of broaddaylight,the muted duskof aridity, andexperience the soft,melancholic fadingof twilight.We may hesitate then,uncertain of ourselvesand of God as theshadows lengthenand obscure ourfamiliar way-steps.(About Mutter Theresa of calcutta)
As we grow in grace,
abide in God andGod in us, oursanctificationwill becomecomplete.At the momentof our salvation,we are given all weneed for life andgodliness, and oursanctificationwill be finalisedat the final rapture.
Aquinas’s view
gives us a crucialinsight relativeto the problemof the knowledge gapconcerning God’sexistence.The knowledge gapis a naturalconsequenceto our way ofknowing asembodied souls.(Reference to Thomas Aquinas, (Summa Theologiae) .
Because of the generous
of St. Faustina in thosechaotic years beforeWorld War II, one weekafter the great EasterTriduum, peoplearound the worldnow celebrate DivineMercy Sunday.It is a day of prayerwhere we ask theLord to renew ourtrust in his mercifullove so that we mightlive it more fully in our lives.It is a day we prayfor those most inneed of Divine Mercy,the…