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Sin does not belong to the soul.
A doctor in the neurology department enters a hospital room and performs a visit. In front of him lies a young woman who recently sang at many concerts throughout the republic. Yes, she is one of our best Slovak performers Mary Gombit. The medical diagnosis was more than cruel for this singer at the time. “You probably won’t be on stage anymore.” This report would definitely take everyone away from it, more a girl whose life seemed like a beautiful dream with a rich career. And suddenly so uncompromising, even inhuman statement. What was going on in the mind of such young man girls with such a marvelous future? Maybe we can’t even imagine it. Such a destiny of life is challenging to accept and not yet represents.

Even in today’s Gospel, Jesus heals a paralyzed person. To beat him, they brought and ran through the roof for a large crowd of people. When Jesus saw their faith, he said to the paralyzed, “Son, your sins are forgiven” (Mark 2: 5). Our Mary would certainly like to hear these words as well. God has but with everyone on his plan, which we often do not understand. It remains for us in this life of secrets. Jesus healed, raised the dead, looked back, and served these people. Even today, it could interfere in our history, but it is not now necessary. He knows what to use when and how. When they marveled at his miracle,
the scribes were all the more surprised when he forgave sins. It was easy for him to forgive sins as well as heal people. Every intervention of God in human life is a big challenge for him. None of us have any idea how God receives these sacrifices that man goes through during his life. Each of us is at various crosses in our lives, but we are probably the biggest cross for ourselves.

Understanding it is not at all easy; all the more so, accept and live with it all your life if you are, we admit it or not. Sooner or later, many events will start giving us a mosaic, and we can see one complete picture. A paralyzed man from the gospel, he certainly had the great joy of walking; it goes without saying. At the same time, however, he received another great grace, which was perhaps not so much they did not realize. He was cleansed of his sins. We often forget about that too their problems, whether we live in a state of grace or somewhere far from God. Already it is once so that a person emphasizes the bodily, all related to the body.

On the contrary, God is also concerned about our soul, which is of great value to him together with the body. We see how Jesus behaves towards man. He will not forget the whole person. In the real story I mentioned initially, it is possible to see the contradictory observance of God to man. We now perceive it from the point of view of earthly life. But there is also eternal life with God that we perceive may be only in old age, when we really survive a lot in the world. Nobody knows what God has plans for each one of us. Therefore, let’s live everyday life in consciousness, preparations for events we do not yet know about. God be everyone preparing one of us for big events. Let’s try to look at our lives through this Holy Mass, even today’s supernatural eyes.

Jesus – ideal, pattern, example

Dear brothers and sisters, when you open a newspaper to read what is new at home and in the world or turn on the television, you will find that the press and the media are full of various terrible and sad news today. These are either various national and fundamentalist hostilities, various air, naval or rail accidents, and various suicides and unexplained actions by some people. When something happens, everyone immediately thinks about why it happened, where the mistake happened, or whether it could have been prevented. Subsequently, various analysts come up with their proposals for the future so that something similar does not happen again and so that similar tragedies are avoided in the future.
But let’s ask ourselves a question. Our security measures enough to save people, nations, the world?

If we asked this question to John the Baptist, he would certainly say no. One of the greatest dangers that must be removed and that must be combated today is the power of sin. We must be unequivocally aware that we are all sinners and prone to sin. Our only salvation from this danger is Jesus, as we have heard in the Gospel today: “Behold, the Lamb of God, which takes away the sins of the world” (Johan 1:36).

Jesus is given various names during his journey. Once it is the Messiah, other times the Son of God, and in today’s Gospel, we have heard John call him. She calls him the Lamb of God. These words, by which John the Baptist refers to Christ, we could say that they are quite bold, even provocative of the Jews, for whom the word lamb means something significant. It was a lamb whose blood was painted on the doorposts to mark their homes in Egypt, making it a symbol of salvation from misery and death, from slavery and humiliation. The Jews were also strengthened with the flesh of the lamb during the journey to the betrothed land. Then, every year, they commemorated these events at home in their families, killing and eating a one-year-old lamb in memory of their departure from Egypt. They also sacrificed the one-year-old lamb as a thank you when they brought their child to the temple after birth. That is why John took many risks when he named Jesus before the Jews before the Lamb of God.
As we all know, St. John the Baptist is the Lord’s immediate forerunner, who was sent to prepare the way for him. He already greets Christ’s arrival in his mother’s womb when Mary visited her relative Elizabeth. He always goes before Jesus and bears witness to him with his sermon, his baptism of conversion, and finally, his martyrdom. John concludes the cycle of prophets that began with Elijah. But he is more than a prophet. He proclaims that the pacification of Israel is near, as if “the voice of the Comforter.”
Behold, the Lamb of God, which takes away the sins of the world. Jesus was sent here by the Father to sacrifice for the sins of all people, to free us from slavery, as the Lamb once freed the Jews from Egypt and brought them to the betrothed land. Even with his humiliating death, Christ frees us from the darkness of sin and shows us the way, the way in the right direction to the betrothed land to our Father.

Yes, dear brothers and sisters, Jesus sacrificed for our sins, yours, and our sins. He forgives us. But as we see all around us, whether at work or home, young people again at school, in dormitories, everywhere as if the strength, size, and the number of different perversions were constantly increasing. That is why it is necessary to think about this phenomenon of today’s rather secularized time and start immediately dealing with oneself and one’s attitudes. We must ask ourselves whether our relationship to sin is right. Do we not have a too lax conscience, and thus the inclination to justify quite serious guilt and transgression? Are we no longer absorbed in today’s problems, namely to follow the direction, pace, and tactics of the modern world, which will uncompromisingly confuse and condemn anyone who does not want to adapt to today’s conditions of life?
It is important to realize your life’s style in our families, in your children’s upbringing, in your personal example to everyone around us. Let’s look at and name things by their real name and don’t try to cover things up and talk about them so that it sounds good not only in our ears but also to the surrounding people. After all, when we parents and educators of a new generation, which is to be a blessing not only for us but for the whole country, we will not teach young people right, what is good and what is evil, what I can and what cannot, what is virtuous, even praiseworthy and what it is dismissive if we do not shape their conscience well, so we can be sure that they will have a tough time judging what they can and cannot do.
Even today’s “perfect world” and lifestyle, which is preferred quite arrogantly and cynically, look at the values ​​that may have been recognized for centuries and that our fathers and grandfathers adhered to. They get to society’s margins as something ridiculous, backward, even today, supposedly, archaic, or obsolete, and causing the brake of today’s life.
As we had heard John’s words to Jesus today when he called him the Lamb of God, we Christians must become such sacrificial lambs for our sins as well as for all sinners, and for us to become good warriors of Jesus in the fight against sin. Perhaps this is not so much necessary to adhere to the words of Jesus and, of course, to strengthen everything with fervent prayer and participation in the Eucharist.

Fighting sin today requires strong faith and a determination to sacrifice something in the struggle.

But let’s think about this event, described by a certain priest, Segur, in the book HISTORY.
A father lost his little daughter in a big crowd on a busy city street. He was afraid that the child would perish. How many he walked, how many he looked, everything was in vain. We can imagine this father’s despair at the child’s loss when he imagined what a terrible thing could have happened to him. What happened to the child, where is he or not …
After four years of searching, he happened to go to the wanderers’ dance booth, and there he saw his daughter on stage performing all sorts of acrobatics on a rope. He couldn’t stand it. He jumped over the fence with one leap and, as he ruled most powerfully, exclaimed, “Daughter!” And she looked at him in disbelief. She didn’t know him. When she was lost, she was a small child. They kidnapped her, and now, after a moment’s thought, she replied, “Are you, my father? No, my father is here “- and she pointed to the comedian who had already run-up to her to defend his victim if necessary. Nothing helped; the daughter did not return to her father, did not know him, renounced him.

Oh, how hard it is sometimes to go back to my father! The devil who steals souls from God has thousands of ways to prevent a return to the Father. It attracts with the appearance of bliss, satisfaction; it spreads for the various settlements the temptations it so oppresses. It envelops the soul that there is almost no possibility of breaking free from this tangle. Man triumphs, scribble whole, and fall as if in vain. Good luck that our Father is good and powerful. If you decide to get up, if you take the first step of repentance, the dearest Father will meet, wipe out his arms, forgive, forget.
Dear brothers and sisters, we see that the mercy of the Heavenly Father is infinite. He is patient with us, and, most importantly, he always has open arms to which we can return at any time. But let us be grateful to him and ask him together today: Father, give us enough strength in the fight against sin, let us always know what you will is, what is dear and praiseworthy to you, and try to live accordingly.

The soul’s activity liberated from the body, that is, the spirit and other spiritual beings’ means: The spirit, which is an immaterial being, does not have such a presence and does not occupy space as the material objects of the being. It is simple and does not contain any compounds because it has no parts if the present does not fill parts of the space.
The spirit is present by his whole being in the whole space by his activity. Multiple spirits may be present in the same space because they do not fill space other than bodies. Their presence lasts as long as they occupy a certain place and is impressive in that they are active there in a certain direction. However, their presence in space is imperfect, limited to a certain part of space: it must be understood that they are not everywhere at once, as the most perfect, the giver of all life, God.
God’s presence in space is unlimited. God is everywhere. At the speed of thought, the spirit can at any time occupy another arbitrary space because it is independent of space. How much space can a spirit contain at one time? By its presence, it can contain a body in the universe about the size of our globe. If the spirit wants its presence from one circular to another, it does not have to overcome the space that separates them. The matter is subject to this law. The spirit is where it wants to be at the moment. Or, in other words, at the speed of thought. The spirit reveals its thoughts to another spirit only by will; I want him to know these thoughts. If he wills, the spirit recognizes them to the extent that they were revealed to him revealed. The spirit, the soul, does not get tired of thinking because it has an immaterial essence. Above all, he knows his existence and the qualities that belong to it. Just as the human soul can see in somnambulist sleep into the past, present, and a little into the future, so the spirit sees and knows much more perfect because it is not limited in any way by time and space.

Believe in Christ
Each of us knows very well what it is like to be sick when we have to worry about us; someone cares. Simon’s mother-in-law was in such a situation when Jesus came to her visit. We know from the gospel what happened next. He approached her, grabbed her hand, and raised it. The fever left her immediately. One-touch of Jesus and the fever was away.
Note that his service was often wordless, and so he acted. When and the whole city was gathered together, and he healed them and cast out many evils ghosts. Then he withdrew to a deserted place and prayed there. Jesus came to freedman from his physical and spiritual illnesses, with which each of us meets. People trusted him because he acted like one who has power.

His miracles caused the healing not only of the body but also of the spirit, the soul. And so, how in Capernaum, he wanted to heal in other places as well. “I figured it out,” says Jesus. To serve everyone and do good was a basic and essential feature of Jesus’ life. Rarely do we meet that he would reject anything only if he wanted to point out individual people’s faith. Jesus was considered popular by many healers, but he did not resist. People often saw the last one in its rescue to which they could flee. That is why he was so often and constantly sought after.

Every day, he cared about people and their needs for what was bothering them. At the same time, he knew that work could not advance without prayer and continue to spread the Kingdom of God. During at night or almost at dawn, the disciples see him praying. It was an essential element of Jesus’ life. His whole performance is filled with prayer. Prayer was like the heavenly food he ate. Without her, he did nothing. Before every decision, work, learning, announcement, he spent a long time with God in prayer. Prayer and work are closely related. Just as Jesus was constantly giving us an example of connecting these two activities, we should also act in our daily lives. Let’s be wise and let us be to learn from Jesus because, in him, man’s perfection was combined with the perfection of God.

And humanity was exalted – deified. Perfection lifted out of misery imperfection, the God of man. This secret of absolute humiliation must always be seen in your life. When we start like this to look at Jesus as a being who came to help us and not something prescribes, our healing will become a reality. Jesus did not force anyone to be healed, but it was, of course, by man. Nobody was rejected. He accepted people non-stop. He wanted to help everyone in some way. Jesus was always available for each person. He didn’t even despise pagans or Samaritans, as he did an orthodox Jew. Jesus came for all, and so he served everyone. Let’s see to us to such Jesus, to Jesus in the service of another.

I sit before the Lord and bless, and at that moment, I feel somehow
inappropriately. Not because of the sign of the Cross, but because I make it that way human, ground, gross, physical, external, hands,
he could not know and clumsily, as something inappropriate and unworthy of God, His grandeur and splendor, something too childish and inappropriate, too marked human weakness and inattention, unsuitable for the Presence of the Eternal. A then, I suddenly realize that He has entered this little first floor of my humanity. He became the same person I used to be in this little one of mine. Primitive humanity met me as God. I do not have to (in this sense) stand up to God because God he descended to me. God descended into my humanity to be in it with me, he met. It is in my humanity, inadequacy, and weakness in my human nature. That is the beauty and splendor of the Incarnation. It is a continuation of what we see in Moses. Moses says: you don’t have to ascend to Heaven to get the sought laboriously and knew God’s will, for God’s Law had come down to you.

It goes even further in Christ: you don’t have to work hard to Heaven to be there. He searched hard and sought God because God himself descended to you to meet you as a human being. No one on earth can see Him Face in Glory and stay alive, but God descended to earth and took a human face so that we can look into God’s human face and survive. God became man so that that man could become God. God entered the world so I could enter Heaven. God meets me in me to be me could live in it. Indeed, there is only one mediator between God and men, the man Jesus Christ, in whom God became man and for us, the way to himself, the truth about oneself and life within oneself. In Him, we meet God, here and now, one in this one ordinary place and in this one ordinary time, it is in all earthly life that we live. The incarnation causes that this world in which we live becomes truly and fully God; it is full of God uniquely; here, in this world, all of a sudden, everything is permeated, God. I don’t have to run, I don’t have to search, thanks to baptism, thanks to the Eucharist, thanks to the gift of the Spirit in this power of God and grace right here and now literally telesne1 and tangibly in the flesh and tangible encounter of this God, who he came to me in my humanity, here, and now I live with God, here and now, as that treasure in the field, suddenly and unexpectedly I discover myself Heaven, ready and ready, take it in your hands and press it on your heart.

Scripture says we are in the world but not of the world. When God entered into our lives, our human and earthly lives have made God and heavenly. We live in a world, but we are no longer from the world because our world has become Heaven, and it no longer belongs to this world, but God, Heaven, Eternity. We are strangers to the world, an islet of Light in the middle of its gloom. The world is scared because it feels that strangeness, but it is a source of great, unspeakable joy for us. How else can we glorify God incarnate than that which belongs to this land?

What is material and bodily in this sense – and what God Himself did when He was, did he take the body from it? Blessing, raising hands, kneeling, standing, words, gestures, and everything else in our lives, work, meeting, learning, speaking, and nothing human is more human enough that it cannot be God and indeed was not God. Nothing but sin, but it is not human. Sin is inhuman, foreign, not belonging to our humanity. That’s why we have to leave so that we can be human. That is the mystery of the liturgy. The liturgy is a celebration of the incarnate God and at the same time the work of the incarnate God, who does it in the Body of his Church, with his hands and gestures material Body of his Church. He physically performs the spiritual, the earthly divine because there is no difference from the moment of the Incarnation: “He made both one, and in his flesh, he tore down the wall of division between them. “

I use the word “bodily” here and in the whole text more in the ancient meaning “material” and the OT meaning “fragile, transient, created” than in the NZ meaning “broken, sinful” And, so I bless myself again and I no longer feel the feeling of inappropriateness, because yes, it is a banal bodily and human gesture. Still, when I perceive that Christ makes him with me and in me, and I with Him and in Him and Christ as man, it is suddenly a gesture fully worthy of Christ God who became man. And then I do it again and again, and it’s a real pleasure to know that something so earthly and small I can really do with God and in God and this is a small gesture – and it can and should be like this our whole life! – suddenly becomes large, transcending the Universe, the world, truly mystical, heavenly, blissful, full of God, held in the common dance of God and man, in which the form of two becomes One. And this can be our whole day, our whole life, everyone’s movement, every gesture, every word, every thought … Can he? More! Must he has! Therefore, God became man to make this possible! I approach God in His humanity, and He meets me and fills me in my humanity.” So whether you eat or drink or whatever.

How we use time should also be asked in preparation for confession1.
Let us now imagine at this moment how Jesus comes to us and says, “The time has come, and the kingdom of God is at hand. Repent and believe the Gospel ”(Mk 1:15).
Wouldn’t that be a great experience for us for a lifetime? Definitely, yes, let’s try to bring this gospel closer. Before calling the apostles to his Community, it is precisely this sentence. It’s time for each one of us, he expected. The time in question is kairos time. Now the hour has struck. Not any more time to wait for another time. Now is the decisive moment. We must act. God for the kingdom is here among us. We may find these words hasty, but from Jesus’ statement, they are also relevant for us. He doesn’t look at the time like we do.

Something only flowing, consecutive. Jesus means the time we are going through now and not before and after. It was something great and appealing to the people of that time. Because they were often used to the oppression of any nation, these words had to be on an act like a balm. They united the kingdom with the glory of King David and Solomon. They knew very well from the holy books how rich the kingdoms were, prosperous and blessed by God. It’s kind of like they told us to Switzerland approached us. What would happen to people then? We know that to introduce. But Jesus continues to repent and believe the gospel. They have to convert and believe the good news that Jesus brought to them from his Heavenly Father. The people who were gathered saw another of many prophets and teachers, so he listened to him. They knew the Messiah was to rise, who will redeem Israel. Jesus wants people to work together to build God in the Kingdom. Therefore, he first calls his loved ones for this service collaborator of the disciples – the apostles. But it doesn’t just stay with them because, with these people’s help, he wants to deal with each one of us personally. As apostles, so he calls us by name because he needs us. God wants people together. They gave each other good news. “The time has come, and God has come near the kingdom. Repent and believe the gospel ”(Mk 1:15).

We have to translate this into today’s people to do our best understood. The kingdom of God is a new world for redeemed humanity, a new world of love. The old world is damaged, devalued by the evil of sin. Christ came to the old world to recover. Remove from its sin and its consequences. And establish love and grace. A renewed man, a renewed environment, a renewed world, free from destruction
sin, this is the kingdom of God. It is the kingdom of the redeemed in which already there is no place for sin, anger, unhappiness, but only good. The realm of good, the realm of truth, the realm of love. The kingdom of God here on earth is not yet in fullness, in maturity, but only the embryo. In Its completion, maturation can be expected only in heaven. What is God’s? The kingdom is most beautifully expressed by the preface on the feast of Christ the King: “Kingdom of truth and life, the kingdom of holiness and grace, the kingdom of love and peace. When we pray, “Thy kingdom come,” this is what we want, this is what we desire we want, we want to live and live in such a world. We want it to settle in our hearts, both in our family and in the whole country, even in the whole world, the realm of truth, the realm of good, empire, holiness, life, grace, justice, love, and peace. Who’s like this? He prays with such intent; he is already maturing to the fullness of God’s perfect kingdom that will be in heaven. In the beginning, I asked how we would behave if he came among us. Jesus said, “The time is fulfilled, and the kingdom of God is at hand. Repent and believe the gospel ”(Mk 1:15). We already understand and know what to us at the moment. The Holy Spirit preached.

Frequent remembrance of one’s baptism enriches life.

Surely, each of us knows our date, the day of birth. Do we also know the day of baptism? That it doesn’t matter? The day of baptism is at least as important as the day of birth. Many have understood this and are celebrating the day of baptism spiritually. They approach the Sacrament of Reconciliation, the Eucharist, and thank God for the parents, godparents, and priest who mediated the first sacrament, without which we could not receive another sacrament. Each month, by approaching the sacrament of reconciliation, many commemorate the moment they became a child of God at baptism. He who wisely behaves respectfully at the great events of his life with the desire to learn the wisdom of life.

Today’s holiday allows us to do such wisely. We commemorate the event of the baptism of the Lord Jesus in the Jordan River. Evangelist St. Matthew writes: “When Jesus was baptized, he immediately came up out of the water. And there was heaven opened unto him, and he saw the Spirit of God descending as a dove, and coming upon him. And a voice came from heaven, “This is my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased” (Mt 3: 16-17).

All four gospels pay attention to the baptism of the Lord Jesus. Jesus was known only to those closest to him. The look of an ordinary Israelite. He was not a council member, a priest or a Levite, and not a scholar. He lived, dressed as prescribed by the Law, and the name Yeshua is common. He was a carpenter and, according to his words, revealed that he was from Galilee. And when this man, who seemed to appear before John the Baptist, surrounded by a crowd longing for the baptism of repentance, John looked at Jesus and said, “I should be baptized for you, and you come to me” (Mt 3, 14)?

Did John Know Jesus? Probably not. Although they were close relatives, they must have met before. It was when they were in the womb of the mothers in Ain Karim. John in the bosom of Elizabeth and Jesus in the bosom of Mary. John recognized Jesus by supernatural prompting. Everything else is just guesswork. What matters is what Jesus answered John clearly and firmly: “Just let it go, for it is proper for us to fulfill all that is righteous” (Mt 3:15). Jesus is beginning to fulfill his role as Messiah in public. He came into the world, obedient to Jesus the Father in all things, the event as described by Matthew was later narrated by John the Baptist, and the baptism of the Lord Jesus was drawn from the beginning by various artists. It is captured by artists, such as the Ebionites’ apocryphal gospel, where it is written that when a voice came from heaven, a great light shone, illuminating the whole area. The angelic church sang when Jesus came out of the Jordan: such details do not give anything new and are not important for the faith.

Questions other than the founder of the Manichaean sect Manesa may be important: Was Jesus sinful when he needed the baptism of repentance? The question is based on John Baptist’s hesitation to baptize Jesus. John’s baptism was the baptism of repentance. He who received him publicly confessed his sinfulness. It could not apply to Christ, for he himself later declared, “Which of you convicts me of sin” (Johan 8:46)? The contradiction and contradiction are quite obvious here. St. Ignatius the Martyr explained this by saying that Jesus wanted to sanctify the baptismal water. And give it sacramental power. St. Thomas Aquinas agreed with this explanation.

The baptism of the Lord Jesus has an even deeper meaning. It reveals one feature of his personality that manifests itself throughout his life. And that is that he sets an example for a person. He submits to humiliation, even if it is great and unjust to teach him. Jesus pursues the same goal when he obeys the Law, although he does not need it personally. He took on human nature in the state in which it was. And this is one of the basic articles of our faith. The teaching of Ebionite delusions that Jesus was a sinner until baptism, and that he caused a transformation in Jesus’ being, is a delusion, as are the words said by God the Father, which are twisted as follows: This is also taught by Gnostics and adoptionists, who claim that Jesus is a man like everyone else, but that Christ, who descended from heaven in the form of a dove, dwells in him from baptism, saying that baptism was not just an external rite. Luke on the Nativity of Christ When John baptized Jesus had not yet fulfilled all that he had been entrusted with when God sent him to baptize with water, he told him that on whomever he would see the Spirit descend and rest on him, he was the one to baptize with the Holy Spirit. Therefore: The next day, when he saw Jesus coming to him, he cried out, “Behold, the Lamb of God, which taketh away the sin of the world” (Johan 1:29).

Even the word “lamb” evoked in every Jewish soul the image of a humble animal of atoning sacrifice, which Israel had redeemed with its blood since the days of Moses. he hath not opened his mouth, as a lamb have led him to be slain, and as a sheep, as a sheep before his shearer “(Isaiah)

In this way, the Baptist introduced the Messiah who would suffer. However, in anticipation of the Messiah, the Jews forgot the prediction that the Messiah would suffer. From the moment John baptized Jesus, two images of the Messiah began to merge: the expected liberator and the suffering (cf. D. R .: Jesus in His Time. Trnava, 1991, pp. 73-76).

What causes baptism, what does baptism mean, why baptize? Living a good life is not easy. It requires the deployment of all forces, but also the ability to cooperate. A person who thinks that he can arrange a nice life on his own is like a man who wants to build a nice house without an architect, without plans, without someone else’s help. He will certainly build something, but only with great effort, and one can doubt whether the result of this effort will be a nice house. The architect of our lives is God. He planned our lives to be beautiful, valuable, and original. He gave each of us a special mission. Long before we came into the world, he knew what abilities, inclinations, and hobbies he would give us, what difficulties and natures he would put into our lives. He prepared everything with immense care and love. Nothing comes into our lives by chance because God has arranged all the circumstances exactly to fit into the plan of our lives. The only sin can destroy this plan of God. To prevent this, all we have to do is submit to his will so that our lives become a wonderful work of God’s love and care.

That this is so is testified by John the Baptist. In his plan, God has chosen him from the ages to be the forerunner of his Son. John collaborated with the divine Architect of his life. He did not build his life according to his will but sought the will of God, to which he willingly submitted. He acted correctly at all times. Challenge for us what we want to live responsibly with the grace of baptism. Where to find God’s plan for your life? Many do not know how to deal with this issue. God’s plan is embedded in God’s revelation. It is in Scripture. It is a universal plan of life for each of us. We don’t have to worry about any uniformity. Anyone who accepts this plan, for his abilities, hobbies, and difficulties, will especially experience the Scriptures’ words. And if added to this willing cooperation with God’s grace, the result will be a wonderfully lived and precious life.

One of the men who accepted this divine plan of his life was undoubtedly the German bishop Klaus Heberle. He died on January 23, 1994. If we were to say in one word who Klaus Hemerle was, it would suffice to say: He was a man who loved the word of God. He tried to live the gospel – day after day. When he spoke or wrote, he kept coming back to him and interpreting him in a thousand ways as a source of life for many. When he was still director of the Catholic Academy, he thought in a homily about Jesus’ sentence: “Whatever you did to one of my youngest brothers, you did to me.” One young man wanted to verify the connection of Hemerle’s words with his life. When he saw the love with which the bishop treated his sick father, he became fully convinced of the harmony between what the bishop said and how he acted, and after this visit, he began to change his life radically. The cathedral applauded when Bishop Lehmann finally said in his mourning speech, “Perhaps — and I am sure, the holy priest and the bishop lived among us in Klaus Hemerl, without us noticing.” (New Town No. 4/1994, p. 10).

The timeliness of baptism lies in the courageous fulfillment of God’s plan in our lives so that similar words may be heard even after the end of our earthly life. Surely we have all seen aerial acrobats perform their art in a circus. Imagine a group performing their art at great heights without any safety net. After the rebound, the little boy makes three jumps in the air and grabs the hands of his father, who is hanging upside down on a swing and is making big half-clouds. They have everything practiced to the millimeter. After all, it would be enough for the boy to fly a few inches lower, and his father would miss him. It would be close, but the result would not turn out well.

A lesson why many miss the eternal kingdom of hair. I wish we weren’t one of them. Introduction to the Christian life takes place through three sacraments that form one whole: baptism, which is the beginning of a new life, confirmation, which strengthens this life, and the Eucharist, which nourishes us with the body and blood of Christ. Baptism obliges us to carry out the commandment of Christ: “Go ye therefore, teach all nations, and baptize them in the name of the Father, and the Son, and the Holy Ghost, and teach them to observe all things that I have commanded you” (Mt 28: 19-20). birth for a new life in Christ. It is necessary for salvation. Baptism must preserve the prescribed material and form. Baptism instills an indelible spiritual sign in the soul, a character that designates the baptized to a Christian religious cult.

The idea that science could be the basis for confronting some religious theses is not new. Many important thinkers have tried to logically argue the basic theses of their views on the world, even in the past. In this connection, let us recall the well-known “five logical proofs” of God’s existence in the work of St. Thomas Aquinas. Dialectical materialism consistently declares itself to be based on science, so it is “a priori” a scientific worldview.

The power of modern science is not so much in verbal logic as in the fact that it can quantify its concepts, i.e., translate its reasoning into mathematical language, thus providing a chance to assess individual phenomena not only qualitatively but also quantitatively. The famous work of the well-known mathematician K. Gödel entitled Ontological Proof of the Existence of God.75) serves as an illustration of such an approach.75) Its peculiarity is that although such an absolute proof cannot exist, mathematicians have not yet discovered a logical error in this work.

It follows from the above that in finding a base suitable for testing individual thought groups’ correctness, it is necessary to focus on quantifiable science, and such is modern physics because its language is mathematics. However, there is one relatively serious problem that representatives of individual religions like to point out. Their basic “truths” have not changed for hundreds or thousands of years, while physics has historically changed its basic notions of the world quite often. That is true, but now the situation is different. Today, physics has two theories that have yielded immensely new results and have resisted all attempts to challenge them for nearly a century. They are the General Theory of Relativity (developed by A. Einstein in 1915), which provides information mainly about SeaWorld, i.e., the universe as such, and quantum physics, the foundations almost simultaneously developed by E. Schrödinger and W. Heisenberg in 1926. It describes processes in the microworld. All that is missing is the elaboration of a kind of super-unified theory, which would include both mentioned theories in the so-called Theories of everything that is being worked on hard. (Details of this can be found, for example, in S. Weinberg’s publication Dreaming on Final Theory.76))

Based on these theories, modern physics has already developed a detailed picture of the microworld and a detailed scenario of the origin and evolution of the universe (the so-called standard model), which shows signs of stability and high credibility, especially after the latest tests and research (via satellites and Hubble Telescope). One of today’s most prominent astronomers, M. Rees, says: “Until recently, I had 90 percent confidence that this model was correct; after the latest research, this confidence has changed to 99 percent.” This means that the time has come for it to look at all hitherto known theistic and atheistic concepts through the prism of modern physics and thus objectively assessed their views of the universe.

First of all, it will be necessary to assess the very relationship of individual worldview concepts to quantitative science, which, as we will see, can be very significant in terms of their adequacy.

When we examine the relationship of different philosophies to quantitative science, we are surprised to find that some of them directly exclude the existence of such science. What is necessary for quantitative science to exist? One of the most important contemporary physicists, S. Weinberg, puts it very clearly in words: “The only way to ensure the process of every science is to assume that there is no divine intervention and to look to see how far we can go without this premise.” everything is controlled directly because of his will (or rather an arbitrariness), then anything can happen at any time, so that the “intelligent observer” does not observe any regularity in these processes, which actually prevents the formulation of quantitative laws, and therefore quantitative science at all. We know that some major religions do hold such attitudes and push quantitative science to the margins.

Dialectical materialism and, surprisingly for many, Christian ideology can be described as an ideology with a clearly positive relationship to quantified science. Although not explicitly emphasized, Christian philosophy acknowledges (and traditionally applies) the thesis that God creates and governs the world – in addition to God’s direct immanent interaction with this world – through specific tools, which are both universal natural laws and so-called. “Secondary causes,” which modern physics interprets as certain small stimuli (“fluctuations”), which is realized in the so-called chaotic dynamics. This clearly defines a certain causality in nature in all material processes, which is a necessary condition for quantifiable science.

The well-known physicist S. Hawking commented obviously on this problem. In the bestseller A Brief History of Time, he says that once (because of the theory of everything) we will explain everything, what else

will the idea of ​​God be needed? However, to the numerous reactions blaming him on atheism, he publicly took the view that he did not need God as an “ad hoc” creator but as the author of natural laws. This statement is solemn because it turns out that the natural laws that govern our world have been chosen very carefully. If they had slightly different wording, we wouldn’t exist. For example, if the forces between material objects and electric charges did not decrease exactly to the square of the distance, stable solar or atomic systems could not be created. In this way, we could proceed from one natural law to another, and we would always come to the same conclusion.

It is an indisputable fact that Christian scientists first developed quantified natural science. (Signs of some quantification have already appeared in ancient Greek culture but have not received much acclaim or outstanding practical applications.) The first “quantifier” was Galileo Galilei, followed by one of the most important physicists, I. Newton, whose famous work Philosophize naturalist Mathematica laid the foundations of quantified physics. With the discovery of the law of force and gravity, he literally connected the “heavens with the earth” because he showed that all objects in our entire universe obey, without exception, the same laws of nature. Other famous physicists grew up on the ground of “Newtonianism,” most of whom professed the Christian faith, but – paradoxically – the same Newtonian ism, which was to celebrate according to its creator the Creator, also became the basis for atheistic materialism. Its origin is connected mainly with D. Diderot, B. d’Holbach, and later with the names of K. Marx, F. Engels, and others, which we have already discussed in more detail in paragraph 2.2.2. This only confirms the fact that for both Christianity and atheistic ideology, the existence of natural laws is essential.

The fact that A. Einstein’s well-known quotes are fundamental in the very foundations of the universe and that they must be linked to “infinite intelligence” testifies: “The most incomprehensible thing in this universe is that it is understandable” and “It is not possible so that there is no infinite intelligence behind it all. “

Based on these facts, science can be defined in the Christian understanding of the search for the laws that God has established for this world. Let us prove this once again with a quote from the famous physicist, W. H. Nernst: “The Bible tells us about what God has done, science is examining how He has done it.”

It can be stated that ideologies that ignored or even made quantified science impossible did not contribute to the current high standard of science and technology in an advanced society. An illustrative example of this can be Japan. While adhering to its old verbal ideology, it was one of the most backward states, but it became a world power when it adopted European quantitative science. And the truth is that Christianity has also made a significant contribution to European quantitative science (especially science) with its rational stance on natural laws’ existence.

Does our heart hardness cause tingling? And the hardness of hearts is caused by the absence of tolerance, love, truth, justice, knowledge, and knowledge to forgive, which brings a strengthening of relationships. Getting things explained and refraining from unnecessary comments is a matter for us. Even to your detriment to the truth, it will bring blessings. Giving victory to justice long delights and makes friends, arouses respect. Consciously caused ignorance and remaining in ignorance is a sign of stupidity. This applies not only to natural things but also to spiritual things. Whistle at people? Whistle on God? The rumble fixed things. On the contrary, they complicate, prolong, cause a lot of damage to the soul and body, which often spoils even those who suffer. Dialogue is needed. Maintain the principles of tolerance, love, truth, and justice.

“The Jews stumbled upon Jesus because he said, ‘I am the bread which came down from heaven” (Johan 6:41). These words became a stumbling block to those who did not understand; they did not want to understand Jesus’ words. Come to me unless the Father who sent me draws him “(Johan 6:44). God the Father gives God the Son for bread. The Son of Jesus speaks the truth about himself: “I am the bread which came down from heaven” (Johan 6:41). The words of Jesus bear the seal of truth. These words are to renew our faith and love for Christ in the Eucharist. Through the Eucharist, we are offered a new life. Jesus is the vine from which, as branches, we can draw strength for the new eternal life. Jesus’ words about the Eucharist are an expression of love.

Today’s man is threatened in his being. Its environment is endangered; life itself is endangered. Philosophers – existentialists write about the problems of the human personality, its existence, personal freedom, that man is an unnecessary, unfortunate certainty, thrown in a kind of play of lot into life and then into nothingness, death, from which there is no way anywhere. By teaching not only about the Eucharist, but Jesus “who eats of this bread will also live forever” (Johan 6:51) clearly teaches that for the man, he is not thrown into the abyss of nothingness and death. He offers everyone the opportunity to “live forever.” to believe him, which is “Life” (Johan 14: 6).

The rumble has no hope. To accept Jesus, to learn what Jesus not only teaches but gives as a gift. The words: “I am the bread which came down from heaven” (Johan 6:41) are a stumbling block for today’s people who “murmur” against God. , explanations, interpretations, only so as not to accept the words of Jesus.

The Eucharist is faith in Jesus’ true presence in the sacrament. This is certainly a crucial point, but not the only one. We need to realize in life that our relationship with Jesus in the Eucharist is to be based on faith.

The human soul does not develop or grow simultaneously as the body. Still, it is already a simple, perfectly immutable essence at the time of creation, with free freedom and reason. Therefore, no one will be surprised by automatic typing in young children, even in young children. It is proof of the existence of the immortal soul and its subconscious activity—lock’s theorem. There is nothing in the intellect that is not in the senses on which materialists build their doctrine belong to the past. It should sound right. There is nothing in the material esplanas that was not previously in the senses. The senses are only one way to know the world. The human soul has other paths, direct. He has unknown talents and abilities that can manifest in the transcendental state. In a deep trance, he not only acquires our entire knowledge at once but also expands it with knowledge hitherto unknown. He recites unlearned poems in a deep trance, solves difficult mathematical problems in a few seconds, creates material formations, and splits his psychophysical being-bilocation. It increases its body weight or floats. He plays all musical instruments, speaks foreign languages. We will learn all this with examples. A 19-month-old child fell into Teacher Perin’s family. At that time, the parents were talking about Sienkewicz’s novel Quo Vadis. They couldn’t remember the heroine being thrown to the left. The child suddenly sat up and said aloud. Legia. It was the name of the heroine of this novel. It happened to the priest Ignatius Martinez that no one could say a certain prayer when he was teaching the catechism. To everyone’s surprise, a six-month-old told her. The intellectual soul has innate, matter-independent higher abilities and talents, with which he will instantly acquire all human knowledge. Someone objects. Why, in addition to my vocation and experience, would I learn more languages, music, study history, and other sciences when my soul in the subconscious controls it, and it is it’s own. Yes, the objection is right, the soul of every human being rules these abilities, but it is the earthly man who created it all. The soul in a deep trance has only the ability to reproduce it all. There is a difference between abilities and merits. Of his own free will, the only one who, to learn, grow, create, has merit. The events of the soul in the subconscious are Christian and morally pure. However, this is lacking in merit.