and lose himself in the mystery
and secrecy and infinite transcendent
reality of God living and working within him.
This journey inward has a destination
beyond personal identity.
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‘The Lord wraps himself
he stretches out the heavenslike a canopy and laysthe beams of his upperchambers on their waters.He makes the clouds his chariotand rides on the wings of the wind.He makes winds his messengers,flames of fire his servants’.psalm 104,2-4 of The Holy Bible)
Practical sanctification
our spiritual growth.Progressive sanctificationis part of our spiritualdevelopment, wherewe are being conformed,day by day, into theimage and likenessof the lovely Godwho cares for us.
In the West too,
divine reality,though theologicallyoriented, has notbeen without theassociation ofphilosophy in oneway or the other.As a result,there have beendiverse philosophicalconclusions aboutdivine reality.
Contemplation is the highest
form of self-realization,attained by apparentself-annihilation.This self-annihilationis in no way self-destruction.
Jesus is a man of sorrows,
deeply-acquainted, with grief.‘Blessed are those who mourn.’He mourns for your sake,he mourns his own sufferingthat he must face,he mourns all the thingsthat are wrong in this world,and he comes on a missionof mercy to make wrongs right.(From the Sermon on the Mount in the New Testament)
When the dark skies bring you gloom
may I bring you sunshine?When the robin singsso melodious and beautifulmay I help you to danceto an unknown rhythm?When the soul calls youto sit and pray in solitudemay I bring you burning incense?When you are sickmay I come to youwith my healing touchand enlivening kiss?You are so dear to me.I give myself to you.That is…