I was an atheist says Dr. Castañon, but after years of studies on the human brain, Eucharistic miracles, apparitions and seers began to find the relationship between faith and reason. Part 1 ( 9:01)
This makes perfect sense, about the spirit being divine etc. Now I can understand completely how it is that God says whatever you do to the least of man you do to me. I thought it was because He loved us so much that it hurt him, but, He actually experiences the hurt in our souls through the Divine Spirit. Does this make sense? I have to find a DVD of this man if there is one. A true prophet! Another modern day St Paul
Hi, it makes perfect sense… I think that he experiences the pain in our souls not only because he loves us with a perfect love that we will not completely understand until we leave this body. As Saint Paul says... "Now we see only reflections in a mirror, mere riddles, but then we shall be seeing face to face. Now I can know only imperfectly; but then I shall know just as fully as I am myself known" But because we´re temples of the holy spirit , we are one body the church, and God remains in us, he is here in our hearts we don’t have to look any farther, he suffers with us, he rejoices with us, he understands us so well, more than we understand ourselves, we just have to believe it! "I am the vine, you are the branches. whoever remains in me and I in him will bear much fruit, because without me you can do nothing" "He who eats my flesh and drinks my blood abides in me, and I in him" If we could really meditate on this we would not dare to offend anyone. just if we truly knew that we are hurting Jesus as well.
You are absolutely right Patty. If I give anything less than love to anyone, I can't look directly at Jesus in The Blessed Sacrament for a good while, I just sit with my head down apologizing. Now, of course I know He forgives me, but His love is so perfect and He wants us to love others this way. When I do wrong (and believe me I try really hard not to) I know that I have let Him down, myself down and the family of God down, even the world. This is not a false humility thing. I have let Him down through betraying Him by not remaining perfectly true to all He teaches (extremely difficult to do as He would like us to love perfectly at all times) I have let myself down because I have not allowed His love to reign in me as completely as I could, and I have let my community and even the world down, because I am supposed to be the one that stands in the gap, that remains in the state of grace, that echoes His love, that loves as perfectly as I can so that it is more of Him in the world and less of me. I am supposed to be His ambassador. When I fail and unbelievers are watching, it causes them to believe a little less, in the same way, that an unbeliever can be converted by one who believes and lives the truth just by watching that person. I could go on, I am not being hard on myself, I know His mercy is so great. I know He understands all my weaknesses and foibles. I also see that He loves my enemies in exactly the same way that He loves me. Even the awful ones! Knowing this filled me with aghast at first, and my stomach twisted as I prayed for them. But this same thing that filled me with aghast also caused me to love Him more. God is so perfectly good, so perfectly lovely, so perfectly holy, He is everything.
