If heaven means being in Christ, then it also means co-being with all those who together form the one Body of Christ. There is no isolation in heaven. It is the open society of the saints and, consequently, also the fulfillment of all human togetherness, not in competition with the Beatific Vision, but rather in consequence thereof.
Christian veneration of the saints depends on this knowledge, not on a mythical omniscience about the saints, but simply on the inviolable openness of every member of the whole Body of Christ to every other member, which presumes the unlimited closeness of love and is sure of finding God in everyone and everyone in God.
There results from this an anthropological component. The integration of the I into the Body of Christ, its being at the disposal of the Lord and of everyone else, is not a dissolution of the I but its purification, which, at the same time, fulfills its highest potential.
That is why heaven is different for each individual. Everyone sees God in his own way; everyone receives the love of the whole Body in his own unalterable uniqueness.
Co-Workers of the Truth
Pope Benedict XVI
01 November 2009
True 2 U
My mother told me: 'If you want to become a soldier you will be a general; if you want to become a priest, you will be a pope'. I wanted to be a painter and I became Picasso!" -Pable Picasso
25 October 2009
21 October 2009
always open
Living in the presence of God does not mean constantly thinking about God. That would split us internally and be too much for us. Rather, it is a matter of opening oneself to a reality, surrendering oneself to the God who surrounds one.
Thus practicing the presence of God does not consist of training in concentration, but on the contrary of relaxing, letting oneself rest in the reality of God, in whom we move and are. Therefore this practice must be carried out not so much in the head as in the body.
Our hearts are to rest in the God who is present; our behavior, our posture, our way of speaking, standing, and walking, our internal collectedness in everything we do should witness to the experience of the God who is present.
Benedict of Nursia - His Message for Today
Anselm Grun, OSB
Thus practicing the presence of God does not consist of training in concentration, but on the contrary of relaxing, letting oneself rest in the reality of God, in whom we move and are. Therefore this practice must be carried out not so much in the head as in the body.
Our hearts are to rest in the God who is present; our behavior, our posture, our way of speaking, standing, and walking, our internal collectedness in everything we do should witness to the experience of the God who is present.
Benedict of Nursia - His Message for Today
Anselm Grun, OSB
16 October 2009
15 October 2009
7 stories
On the mountains of truth you can never climb in vain: either you will reach a point higher up today, or you will be training your powers so that you will be able to climb higher tomorrow. -Friedrich Nietzsche, philosopher
14 October 2009
11 October 2009
dos mas
"Damaged people are dangerous. They know they can survive."
Josephine Hart, Damage
"There is no religion without love, and people may talk as much as they like about their religion, but if it does not teach them to be good and kind to man and beast it is all a sham…"
Anna Sewell, Black Beauty
Josephine Hart, Damage
"There is no religion without love, and people may talk as much as they like about their religion, but if it does not teach them to be good and kind to man and beast it is all a sham…"
Anna Sewell, Black Beauty
08 October 2009
06 October 2009
two more
"There is no religion without love, and people may talk as much as they like about their religion, but if it does not teach them to be good and kind to man and beast it is all a sham…"
Anna Sewell, Black Beauty
"For there is no despair so absolute as that which comes with the first moments of our first great sorrow, when we have not yet known what it is to have suffered and be healed, to have despaired and to have recovered hope."
George Eliot, Adam Bede
Anna Sewell, Black Beauty
"For there is no despair so absolute as that which comes with the first moments of our first great sorrow, when we have not yet known what it is to have suffered and be healed, to have despaired and to have recovered hope."
George Eliot, Adam Bede
04 October 2009
03 October 2009
two
"In nature there are neither rewards nor punishments; there are consequences."
Robert Green Ingersoll
"Oh, my friend, it’s not what they take away from you that counts. It’s what you do with what you have left."
Hubert Humphrey
Robert Green Ingersoll
"Oh, my friend, it’s not what they take away from you that counts. It’s what you do with what you have left."
Hubert Humphrey
01 October 2009
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