Faith!

Faith transcends awareness. It is also, and more about the trust and abandonment to God,of our prosperity and the positivity of things as it relates to us, even when we don't understand, even when we don't see. This sort of faith is what wins the Lord over and that which allows Him to effect much on souls. This is the true poverty; this is why the protagonist of history is the beggar! Blessed is he who has not seen but yet believes!

Life as a triduum

His hour is what matters, if we can muster all our energies towards the hour of the great work, especially the contumasum est, when he cried: 'it is finished!' the hour -as it is called- of great mercy.This is the ultimate moment when He brought everything back to perfection (and when I am lifted up on high, I'll draw everything to Myself) I call it 'parii'se'.

He repaired all the faults of Adam. If we can find a way to bring this hour into the present and halt it, so that time becomes a manifestation only of this great moment, then there shall be heaven on earth. The great energy we would employ is memory. Memory is in fact reality, especially in the Eucharist, which is in fact a thanksgiving( that through which only we can please God), and thanksgiving is a gift of self(finding a perfect fulfilment on the cross who does that in our place) 'How can I repay the Lord...I will raise the cup of salvation...-and again-'you do not ask for sacrifice or gift... instead here I am...' .That is why Christ said' do this in memory of me', that command is solely and exclusively for our own good.

Because God's ways are infinite, it doesn't change, the work of creation still finished on the 6th day, and on the 7th day He actually rested, He rested , on that Saturday, in the grave. and again, the point is that, for the new era of the new covenant, which is infinite, the priority of the days has changed, until the final retreat of eternity, His work produces a new creation, and He keeps on working, Emmanuel, always with us, taking the responsibility. The command of Christ divinises work, 'Go ye...'. The holy day is this new day, when everything is made new, God is love,love is work, God is work!The first day, which is the new holy day, when God created heaven and earth, thus becomes blessed, it is not Saturday when things becomes laggard, it is a perpetual newness , creativity and innovation. 'send Forth Thy Spirit and they shall be created...' this is it!If we succumb to Saturday, we die,Sunday is the true day of resurrection and newness!

For the love of Eros!

The world should be loved. It is one whole bunch of eros. Beautiful, sexy,etheral. We are meant to be attracted by this loveliness of the world. That is the starting point to freedom. Yet, it is a great deception, the world, as we see it, is false, zero,literarily nothing, what paradox! The world is the great deception. Eros is never bad, it should be desired but it is as risky as death! Remember it is love, eros is love! This is our mistake: rather than starting from God so as to bring eros to unity we start from ourselves who are also principaly eros! eros + eros = 0 ( nihilism), God(agape) + eros = 1 ( unity). Because we dare approach eros through our efforts, we get severed and it turns us narcists, and the great lie is perpetrated, and we blame eros for everything. If eros is bad, why would God come down to be eros(man)? He , being eros, as a consequence has attracted everything eros and makes them divine, thus food , meat , wine, sex, money, pleasures are divine attributes. but first by an absolute submission of eros to agape can this pleasures be genuinely realised , and we experience the great transformation of eros through filial into agape!

On Career

God loves the world. He prefers the natural to the supernatural. This path of naturalness is the one that leads to authentic growth, for it unleashes all our energy, humanness and creativity. Mary is the symbol of all naturalness, i.e all that is seen. Even though we are often consoled by the divine and miracles, the ultimate victory comes only by work because God has become flesh, that is why the purest miracle is that which is realised amidst the struggles and the events of life.Progress entails taking responsibility of the world and nature, noturing her and making her habitable for posterity. This work , done, in tilling mother earth is ultimately the path towards salvation.The earth is matter, 'severance',and matter must be acted upon so that it can act once more in essence, i.e unity.Work was cursed to be toil through the adamic fault , but work is not to be hated.Through the victory of Christ, work is love. In fact love is a verb, an action word, a doing word.All professionalism and career points to this ultimate aim: love. We must love what we do! This beautiful naturalness has its roots from the supernatural, the source of all naturalness is divine. From the unseen to the seen, our work , thus natural as it should be , should untimately be dependent on the supernatural, it is being controlled from thence. It matters little wether we like what we do or not , what we have to realise is that it is love. Love sometimes transcends feelings....

Faith

Faith transcends awareness, it is also - and more -about abandonement in trust, this is the great humility, that even when we dont understand, when awareness is lacking, trust in God's care about our prosperity and the positivity of our issues takes over. This attitude is what conquers the heart of God, it is such, that Mary had and that which Christ lauds: blessed is he who has not seen but yet believed!

Covenants

Herein lies the meaning of covenant. God says it is all about me, not us,but me firstly.The starting point is this intense and deep care about me and my prosperity. Now, next, is that I should say it is all about God,which is found in the absolucity, totality and universality of everything. The more i expand my heart to embrace everything, and the more i am abandoned and passionate about these things, the more my depth of awareness grows and i see that , for God, this business is all about me, that this 'everything' is in fact me. This is the great union at play. This covenant is what should find its perfect relevance in marriage. What binds and seals this covenant ,ever newly and eternally is the Blood of the Lamb, same man and God. It is more than remembrance, therein at Mass,memory and reality become one! And since we lack this capacity to devote ourselves entirely to the service of God, He comes in our place, and God who sees the Blood, becomes perpetually interested in man,this sacrifice has been made once and for all. For God, it becomes eternal and perpetual, but for us , we must perpetuate it as a memorial , because we live within the boundary of time and space,the memorial is not for God to keep loving us,His love has become unconditional , but for us to sustain the capacity to embrace His love, the weakness of the covenant has a fault in us , and that is what the Lamb has come to remedy, to put us in the capacity to be God! Memorial and reality are one. This is Mass, the sacrifice of the Lamb, our covenant is sustained because of this, this mercy becomes alive in an individual and his cares, as long as we do the memorial! Christ is both one and many, man and God, me and the Absolute!

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'Idagunla......,aibikita.......