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What not to forget about the property?
Have property be secured. This is all very much nowadays necessary. It is an inevitable certainty in the life of each one of us, which is essential, but not the most important. It is a certainty into which we put the whole thing, many times your hope, your trust. But can it make us happy? Are you satisfied with your life? Do we feel confident?
In addition to our pursuit of property, we often forget ourselves, ours
neighbors, and, finally, God. We don’t have time for anything. The property is us became God. It completely darkened our minds. Well, the problem is not that we have significant assets. The problem is that we cannot use these valuable things properly for the good that God has given us. They always go wrong when you make the object of worship and subject to them. However, these gifts may also be refined
when we turn them into instruments of doing good in the Christian role of justice and love.

Material interest in itself is good and is supposed to bring benefits to us and the whole society in which we live. One can aim for either God, which also achieves through material things if he uses them as a means of attaining salvation, or you can set as a goal wealth with many desires for luxury, comfort, and possession of things, and thus is excluded from the real the joy of having God. In life, things are essential and less important or secondary. For passengers of the Titanic, it is crucial to know that the ship was sinking. Many do at. First, they laughed and continued to play cards carefree. But in a moment, it was fatal for them. They forgot they were on a ship. Our life is also like one big ship on which we must remember that our life also has a mission, a goal. Our goal is to be Christ. All your hope and love must be focused on him. He is the right one, a value that determines our whole life because no other value exceeds it, and in no additional weight is their salvation. He who puts his heart into the earthly goodwill interfere with the opportunity to meet the Lord. Jesus reminds us: “You cannot serve both God and mammon” (Mt 6:24)it cannot be just self-enrichment and the accumulation of good. It would lead to the great impoverishment of our person. And maybe even the loss of salvation. Mildness in owning and using good gives the Christian both human and supernatural maturity. One should also be sanctified through the enjoyment of these material gifts. Therefore, let us thank God for everything he has given us, but at the same time, let us also beg the gift of grace so that we can properly enjoy this material well and engage them in God’s great plan of salvation.

St. Gregor from Naziánus speaks with a sigh about the property that the first people had in paradise and lost. Indicates her with a Greek term that is quite difficult to translate: parrhesia. It would be an arrival, an approach, a closeness. The transparent, clear conscience of the innocent man did not know aperture. Adam spoke to God; he understood his human partners and the world. He could say out loud everything that was happening in it. Immediately after sin, however, he hid (cp. Gen. 3.8), ashamed of his childhood simplicity, he needed clothing. Even today, people say they like openness, sincerity, truthfulness, simplicity. It is said: «What the world would be beautiful if everyone said what they thought, they did not hide anything ». However, the question is much more complex than it is at first glance, it seems. If we all revealed our most secret thoughts to each other and revealed ours in movement, we could hardly survive to live together. Human coexistence would be like a city where all the dirt is thrown out the window. Truthfulness, sincerity, virtue is paradise. Unfortunately, we do not live in paradise. Therefore, it is necessary to consider the actual state, with moral and psychological conditions.
Truth and truthfulness.
We do not always know the truth, at least not clearly. And you, then we do not always tell the fact that we know. Scholastic philosophy distinguishes two truths, the so-called logical and ontological. Philosophers call analytical truth clarity and correctness of human knowledge, as our inner image of reality corresponds to the world; as it is, we are not wrong. So, as they say, it is “adapting an idea to things, to reality.” The ontological truth is, on the contrary, adapting reality to an idea, but to a proper idea, that is, God’s. Ontology is so much a thing true as it corresponds to God’s thought, purpose providence. In this sense, Christ reproaches his enemies for hating the truth, for not living according to the fact, that there is no truth in them. They do not keep God’s commandments, they do not live according to God’s will, so they follow the spirit of lies. (cp. Jn 8:41).

Human truthfulness is like a reflection of God’s ontological truth. We start from an idea and adapt something external to it. The fact of a work of art is discussed if the statue, the poem, the music expressed the whole interior of the artist. However, there is a bit of artistic creation in every expression, especially in words. The man is, namely, able to express his thinking and feeling in terms. Here too, however, there are two different problems. The ability to speak externally is limited and very graded according to education and talent. Otherwise, he will “utter” his heart a poet, an otherwise simple person who can use only a few general expressions. The “truthfulness” of the art of the work is the fruit of talent and tenacious effort. Judging their art criticism. However, we are interested in moral problem words. The word expression does not overlap with inner conviction and feeling not only lacking ability but also because we are not sincere and lying.

From the very beginning, man, as we know him, was not only a hunter, not only a homo faber but also a homo religious, a religious man. One also comes from nothing. It was nothing at all. But where does he go after death? Man is in danger of extinction. For several decades, some philosophical trends have been trying to convince us that we are coming from nothingness and returning to nothingness. There is no point in anything.

To believe in God is to reject this absurdly. If I believe in God, I recognize that the world makes sense. Then I begin to understand my life. Each generation must rethink the fundamental problems of life to solve its task and its situation. But these solutions will be incomplete until they give a man a meaning that includes the experience of life and the reality of death.

One wants to understand and understand it. What happens to him and beyond. There are specific basic needs in us that we strive to meet. Injustice hurts; justice gives a sense of security. The illogical causes’ confusion; the sensible satisfies us. One also sought an answer to the question about oneself. The answers lead him beyond this life, beyond the time of birth and death. They redound him to God.

If a person is superficial, there is nothing he can do with it. If he learns to look into himself and discovers a depth of consciousness and conscience, he will approach God. The more he knows himself than man, the closer he is to God.

Animals don’t know anything about God because they have no depth. They do not have the center and the unity of the interior that we call consciousness. They merge with the world around them.

It’s entirely different with a person. A person knows things around him and realizes that they are different from him; he does not merge with them, separates himself from something, and recognizes himself as a being who stands above things. One can know more and more perfectly, desire more and more perfectly. He is open to the infinite being that is God. In this, man is unique in the whole immense world, and therefore he is excellent. God belongs to his life.

Our lives and consciousness have depths that do not explain any materialism—neither mechanical, evolutionary, nor humanistic. At the same time, man’s spirituality does not distance him from the world, but allows him to live fully in the world.

The world has its worldly value, and our work is not a delusion or something without meaning. But acknowledging the importance of the visible world cannot mean denying the spirit in and over the world. No one can remove from the world the profound things that religion, the origin of the world, life and man, the sense of the inexhaustible mystery of life, the effort to understand the meaning of our existence, the question of conscience.

If we live humanly, we must first know what human life is and what it means to be human. It has been claimed that the time of questions about the meaning of everything is over, so the question about God disappears as a human problem. Those who claimed this could also argue that man would die out. If one stopped asking questions about one’s origin, meaning, and purpose, would one be even more than a highly developed animal that does not know the question of meaning at all?

Behold the five proofs of God’s existence. They all prove the same being, the truth under different aspects: immobile Mover, Cause of Causes, Necessary Being, Supreme Perfection, Supreme Controlling Wisdom. Each of them relies on a different basis, and yet they all come to the same conclusion.
A priest is a man of God. His primary task is to maintain a firm faith in the existence of God. Unfortunately, we note that belief in God today, especially among simple people, is weakening. How to prove to these people that God exists, and what arguments to use? The ones given by St. Thomas are undoubtedly strong, but it is not easy to provide them to simple people to understand. The Holy Fathers often relied on the general consent of nations. Most humanity believes that he is God. It often seems as if they do not think so, but there are exceptional circumstances when they return to faith in God. They say the name of God quite naturally when they are distressed, when they are suffering. In the soul of man, there is a kind of force that draws him to God. The pains of life convince us of our weakness and force us to seek the Comforter. It is a joy to say that religious faith was before civilization and that religion became the first teacher to spread culture that travelers had not yet discovered such a wild tribe that they did not have faith in God. Denying God testifies to something. The fury of God’s denial convinces us that this is nothing more than opposing their beliefs. If an unbeliever is confident that there is no God, why do they so fiercely deny God? In his Comedy “Riders,” he puts such dialogue into the mouths of his people. Nicias, do you believe they are gods? Definitely. And how do you prove they are? Well, they have to be because I hate them. From the denial of rage, we know the denial of fear. You are trying to cover up your crime. What does a criminal want above all? Or not to be punished for his actions. He would like to destroy the law that condemns him, the truth that convicts him, and the power that will judge him. And God is power, truth, and justice. Behold the reason for denying God’s existence. St. Augustine speaks. See to the sinner how blind you are. When you don’t like his truth, you hate him and want to throw him off the throne. You want him, not at all. Atheism says Amadeo de Margarite causes a mess and is the biggest we can imagine.

The atheist Machovavec wrote: The atheist should also be honest and truthful. But when we asked why being honest and sincere, no one gave me a reasonable answer and reasonable reasons. Be open for the voice of conscience? But what if the conscience does not respond? And what is conscience? Why not act out of purely personal interests? One told me. If I sacrificed too much, what would society give me for it? Others say they are honest because they follow a practical principle. What you don’t want others to do to you, don’t do to them. That’s enough. And others will say, Why to strive if it is not controlled at all in the end. M, Machovec continues to think. A man has something more significant in himself than he is. Man transcends himself. It goes into the future. Future goals shape it. He still exceeds himself. One cannot live a valuable life if one does not show dissatisfaction with the given condition. What is it in a person who forces him to be dissatisfied with a shared reality? Man cannot be alive only by bread. Man is not satisfied only with material well-being. It is also necessary to manage the inner man, his inner needs. Where does the idea of ​​God in humanity come from? From what roots do this question grow? Some say it’s an unnecessary question. However, how to understand that this question has appeared again and again in history. People are still asking about God. Some believe, some doubt, others deny; they still fight for God and believe in him. Prayers are still offered to him.

The question of God, his existence, has been dealt with by humanity since time immemorial. The evidence for the existence of God has an impressive tradition. The most excellent spirits of society have pondered this evidence. The foundations were laid by Plato and Aristotle. In Christianity, they were domesticated by St. Augustine. In the Middle Ages, they were magnificently completed by Thomas Aquinas. In modern times, Descartes, Leibniz, and others have thought of them again. Not only thinkers were concerned with the idea of ​​God. A simple person also dealt with this. Not only for fear of phenomena in nature, which you could not explain, not only to give rest to your muscles. He suspected that he had something mysterious in him. Shards of arrows, arrowheads, stone axes all told us about the life of a prehistoric person. However, these objects are silent about one. About the inside of a man. From these subjects, we can reconstruct the interests of man, his abilities. But it’s inside? It remains a secret.

Imagine that a stranger addresses you on your way to Church: – Are you a believer? – And you answer: – Yes, I’m just going to Church. It is the feast of the Assumption of the Virgin Mary. – Then you say: – Great. I’m looking for a person like you. I’m looking for an answer to the question: – Why am I in the world? Can you tell me where the sky is? What is heaven? How to get to heaven? –
These are all things we know. Surely, you would give the person the most detailed and best answer possible.
However, we should rethink these questions, even though we can answer others. This is because more and more we can know these things, know them, and live according to them. More and happier to live your faith.

Today’s holiday is an excellent opportunity for that. And in particular, the words of the evangelist Luke: “As soon as Elizabeth heard Mary’s greeting, the child in her womb trembled and the Holy Spirit filled Elizabeth” (Lk 1:41).

When the Virgin Mary learns from the Archangel Gabriel about the great grace given to her elder relative Elizabeth, she is hurrying. However, no one sends her to serve Elizabeth. Mary has always done the will of God. Through this behavior, too, he fulfills the will of God. We also see this in the events of the house of Zechariah. Elizabeth was filled with the Holy Spirit. Like Mary, Elizabeth, who is faithful in all God, becomes the instrument of God, who does her work through her.

You also came to Church today, although you could stay at home. Being here is our consent for God to speak through us and for us. Do you think it is not valid for God to talk to you and through you now? Do you know why this seems complicated to you? Because we do not understand the concept of faith well. Faith makes us black; it becomes pretty ordinary. Someone will say: I am a believer. Although today the Church shows us to attend the whole Holy Mass, he knows this and does not go to Holy Mass. He did not appreciate today’s mass and will say: I don’t even go for a beer today. Neither this nor other things can be compared to what the Church shows us today.

For us, faith must not be just lessons and definitions that we can say without difficulty. Faith is more than a collection of speeches. Some people have naive ideas about God. Even today, some point the finger at the sky, up that there is heaven. And what is heaven, fairy tales tell about it and fantasize about it? Although they want to get to heaven, they say it is tough, and many say it is only for the chosen ones.

The Church teaches that after the death of the Virgin Mary, the Lord Jesus took her soul with an intact body to heaven. The Church also teaches that the Lord Jesus wants us all in the kingdom of God. He also wants to reward us with his glorified body and soul in his kingdom. Our faith teaches us to connect often with Jesus, to come closer to Jesus, to come to Jesus, to unite with Jesus, to submit to Jesus, and to receive Jesus. The Virgin Mary did the same. In it, our faith has a pattern. Each of us should use our age, status, and status to fulfill God’s will with each of us.

The Lord Jesus once said explicitly, “My mother and my brothers are those who hear the word of God and carry it out” (Lk 8:21). The Lord Jesus gives us the example of the Virgin Mary. The Virgin Mary did not know more about her mission before or after the proclamation. However, she tried to obey the Law faithfully. He is our role model in this. We, too, are in the world to know God, love and fulfill what He has commanded us. Then we already experience the vestibule of heaven on earth. He who lives in connection with God, God is in his heart. Where there is God, there is also heaven. God is everywhere, and that is why it is our effort to know him as much as possible, love him, and live according to his word. He who lives with God is happy. If we have experienced a natural feeling of happiness at least once, have we not wanted to share this state all the time? However, we know that everything on the ground is in motion. Things and people are aging, dying, destroying, and disappearing. The material world is imperfect. Therefore, because there is no material world, it cannot be compared to any country, comfort, and joy on earth. Or there is a state of the soul where God rewards His faithful for the faithfulness they have shown him during life in the material world. And this is also the answer to the question: How to get to heaven? Do God’s will on earth!

God has a plan for each of us. In many ways, they are similar. We live simultaneously, in the circumstances, and yet we each have our way to reward. God gives everyone enough strength and grace. It depends on us how we use them. This man can be an example to us.

He is injured in an explosion as a newlywed. Both hands had to amputate him in the hospital and operated on both eyes. When the wounds healed, hands-free and without eyes, they sent him to the newlyweds. Let’s get into his situation. He thinks. What can I give to my wife? I’ll be wasted so she can get married again and be happy. I’ll shoot myself! But how if I don’t have my fingers? I’ll hang myself. But what if I can’t put a rope around my neck? I’m getting poisoned! But what if I can’t mix poison? I’m thrown under the train! But what if I don’t see the rails? Simply put, he didn’t know and couldn’t waste himself. this is his despair, observed by his wife. She herself suffers greatly from her husband’s condition. However, it is a reinforcement for him. He prays for himself and for him.
After one sermon on faith, he says to his wife: – Please leave me here alone. – In an empty church, he thinks and thinks. She came for him before lunch. In the afternoon, when he is home alone again, he begins to pray. He does not ask God for eyes, for hands, but he asks for faith. He wants to pray the rosary, but he has no fingers. So, he will help with his toes. His life is slowly changing … He meets Jesus, connects with Jesus, gets closer to Jesus and submits to Jesus. It acquires a new and qualitatively more valuable view of life. He no longer feels unhappy.
After a few years at one meeting, he addresses the bishop: – Father bishop, could I become a deacon? – The bishop tells him: – You have no hands; therefore you cannot give holy communion. You don’t have eyes, so you can’t read the Gospel. Yes, but you have a mouth. You can preach. And after studies he is ordained a deacon. He became a popular and sought-after preacher. A frequent theme of his disciplines is the power of faith needed in a person’s life. People see him, and he can’t see. People have hands, but he doesn’t have them. People realize that faith in a person’s life is more than gold. The value of faith goes far, outgrows the natural horizon. Faith goes back to eternity. Faith is the beginning of eternity. We know that the Virgin Mary was not nailed to the cross and did not have a spear pierced her side. However, we know that the Virgin Mary shows us the way of faith with her life. Faith is infinite. The fruit of faith is the reward that God has promised us, and we are convinced of the Virgin Mary that God will richly reward everyone for the love we show him.

Surely, no one will address us today; why am I in a world where heaven is, what heaven is and how to get there. We are convinced that it is right for us to return to and remember the familiar things of faith. This is also the moment when the Holy Spirit fills and strengthens us again with His gifts. 

As with any religious act, so at Mass, an inner disposition is a condition of grace. In particular, Gaudier emphasizes the three ideas he served on to be well present at Mass: 1. to sacrifice with the priest; 2. The best way to be disposed to do so, we have received the most benefit; 3. Accept everything to us Mass gives.
The word disposition is known from daily life. We say that someone is or is not available to sing, on the game, listen to jokes, etc. We know how much failure depends on personal indisposition. It can be a snapshot or and permanent. A good singer refuses to sing because she is just cold. He who has neither musical hearing nor education usually goes to listen to symphony orchestras. He is not disposed of it, and it is permanent because he lacks it, assumption) for the concert to give him something. Scholastic philosophy defines disposition as the beginning of the form. If we are to express it more efficiently and clearly, we can say that a person must already, to some degree, have what he receives. Music enriches the inner life and feelings of a musician, that is, to whom already. Instead, the tones gave something.
Even at Mass, the best “disposed” is the one who already has, to some degree, what is sought here. The liturgy, therefore, gives mainly by those who lead a religious life. That is, of course, the general rule. However, one may be appropriate preparation, let’s say a short one, for this or that performance better disposable. Athletes, artists, speakers do it …

What would be the most appropriate disposition for Mass?
The symbol of the Mass sacra mentally reminds us of the last Lord’s Supper and the sacrifice of Calvary. It is, therefore, best disposed to have one who restores the spirit of sacrifice and desire for oneness with Christ and with the whole Church, with all with whom he mystically sits at one table. It was good, the custom-made in religious societies: to bring at least one sacrifice a day and do one act of love
to a neighbor as a preparation for tomorrow’s participation in Mass. At one Eucharistic congress in Austria took the place-unique initiative. Compulsory, school children should always bring one wheat grain to their religion teacher whenever they denied or served their neighbor. From that, The wheat was then ground to a flour for the Eucharist downhill. In the first place, of course, available belongs the inner intention to receive the grace at the table of the Lord’s offer. Both the sacrifice on Calvary and the Mass sacrifice bring for the salvation of the whole world, for the living and the dead. Nevertheless, the custom arose to sacrifice individual masses for a special intention, e.g., for the deceased, for relatives, in honor of the Virgin Mary, etc. Theologians could not cope well with what meaning is to be understood precisely. But there is no need to look.

Explanatory explanations. Even the mass liturgy is prayer. The power of prayer then depends on union with Christ and thus with God’s omnipotence. At Mass and St., we experience receiving the moments when this connection is closest, sacramental. So, this is also the best time for us to pray for what was close to our hearts. Therefore, the so-called mementos, memories of the living and dead who entrust ourselves to our prayers from the earliest times. St. Franz Borgia sprayed his memento as follows: He imagined Christ on the cross. To the wound of the right hand, he put the pope, the bishops, the clergy in his left-hand rulers, all who rule. To the right leg wound laid care for his religious confrères, in the left then relatives and acquaintances. In the case of a wound in the side, then he prayed for himself.

Direct knowledge of God is not natural to us. The immediate mode of knowledge exceeds our innate understanding. This is only given to God’s chosen ones. That is their privilege. As Descartes and Saint Anselm thought, our knowledge of God is not the result of purely rational arguments. One thing is sure; we cannot know God by seeing him with our bodily eyes. Just because God is a spirit, and therefore we cannot see it with our physical eyes.

According to Augustine, God has never appeared to anyone as the object we see, but He will awaken in our souls what we can then know Him, Augustine says. I asked the earth which God was, and she answered me. I am not God, and everything on it is the same. I asked the sun, the sky, the stars, the moon, and they answered. Nor are we the God you seek. Well, you confessed that you are not God. So at least tell me something about him, They cried out in a big voice. He created us. Then I didn’t ask them anymore. It was enough for us to look at them. Their beauty was the answer to me. Then I turned my attention to myself, and I said. Who are you? And I answered. I am human. I have a body and a soul. One is from the outside. The other is from the inside, which of these two should I turn to find my God, whom I searched in vain with the senses on earth and in the sky, where only my eyes could see. What is inner is better. That is why I asked my soul because it gave her my senses to judge the answer that the earth and the whole sky gave me. Thanks to the outer man, the inner man has learned that everything we see around us is not God. It is his creation.
Why don’t the created things of all people lead to God? There are several reasons for this. Some people do not think. They enjoy something, they admire them, but that’s all. However, some people ask where all that is around us is. However, people who do not believe in God will not admit that God created it. They will say it is on its own. It’s mother nature. Everything was created by development. Today’s science refutes these theories. It proves that behind the creation of the universe, there must be an infinitely wise being who is infinitely superior to us. However, all this cannot convince these people, and they remain unbelievers against all logic. A person is a being whose thinking and action often cannot be logically explained, and nothing can be changed about it. 

Even today, some people reject religion or speak out against it. Under normal circumstances, people talk about what they know and what they have gained solid knowledge about. People who don’t know anything about it allow themselves to talk about religion. Sometimes the less they know about him, the more confident they say. Thus, a person who does not know these fields would not dare talk about medicine or chemistry. Opinions on faith in God still differ today. Some believe and live by faith; others reject faith. However, this does not mean that it is an indifferent thing that does not matter.

I will try to show that this is a serious matter for those who believe and those who do not. Why do unbelievers exist, and if they do exist, is this not evidences against the existence of God? Some people understand complex mathematical and physical lessons. Others do not understand even the most essential things of them. However, they do not refute mathematics, which does not cease to be what it is. Denying God and not believing in him is not a matter of argument. There are people; even if you give them an idea, they will not accept it against all logic.

Not believing in God is not a matter of reason and debate. It is a matter of faith. The struggle is not between believers and non-believers, but between two groups of believers. Believers in God and believers in the case. It is a struggle for two understandings of the deity for two ideals, its origin, and purpose for two life versions. One may for some times immerse oneself in the things of this earth so much that one does not think about anything else.

Ignac Lepp, the psychologist, says I have not been interested in the other world or my soul for a long time. For a long time, I did not understand any further possibility of existence than we have in time. But I kept asking myself the question: What is the meaning of this existence of ours in time. And it seemed to me that it is still not possible for beings endowed with the ability to think and love to be thrown into the universe and end in final decay in nothingness, where it was likely neither to love nor to hope. I have encountered the Christian message with such psychological dispositions.