martes, 24 de septiembre de 2019

CITA: La verdadera felicidad. (Joseph White)


"The human heart is only at peace and rest when it finds an ultimate good that it can posses with stability and joy. Really in the end—as much as that can be friendship, it can be marriage and children, it can be meaningful work, it can be the love of the search for the Truth, natural and supernatural—the ultimate rest of the human heart is in God. No matter what the achievements of the human race, it is never going to be free of its need for God, nor be able to dominate the mystery of God. You can only approach him through a studious wonder, through contemplation, through learning, through devotion, through religion. St. Thomas gives us clues for how to live in this world while thinking about the mystery of this world in light of God, unto God. That’s what he calls wisdom: to think about all things in the light of God, and for God, and as returning to God.

To be on a pilgrimage in this world, headed back toward God, intellectually trying to think about things in light of God, and trying to find joy through contemplating God in faith. This heals the heart because it gives the heart a place of rest. Contemplation is something very powerful. Eucharistic adoration is one of the ordinary forms of contemplation at work in the Church that converts people all the time. It is such a profound contemplative encounter with the presence of Christ! St. Thomas helps us become people who have the habit of contemplation, who habitually seek to find God in silent prayer".


Joseph White o.p.


domingo, 1 de septiembre de 2019

CITA sobre ateísmo

"¿Qué habrán (o habremos) hecho los creyentes para que Dios tenga tan mala imagen entre ciertas personas? Parece que Dios sería únicamente el aguafiestas, el supervisor implacable de nuestros desmanes, el castigador inevitable de todo lo poco o mucho malo que hiciéramos en esta vida. ¡Pues tarde o temprano su justicia caerá sobre los impíos!... En consecuencia, no nos enfademos por ver que a Dios se le pone como un mero justiciero, un vengador, en definitiva, un estorbo para nuestra felicidad... ¿Puede haber algo más contrario al mensaje de lo que conocemos por medio de la revelación bíblica, de un Dios misericordioso, fiel, perdonador, que paga ciento por uno, etc. etc ? ¿Es éste el Dios que nos reveló Jesús de Nazaret? Meditar esto por parte de los creyentes quizás sea más importante que enfadarse porque algunos hayan proclamado su opinión (sólo “probabilística”...) sobre la no existencia de Dios".


Lorenzo Vicente Burgoa