For LM to be inspired: and some of you know this tale.
Two years ago, almost, I had an experience which some people in Europe have described as well. I call it a "mini-particular judgement".
I have written about a person I knew and here is that story.
I think some of us have been given a special grace to see the intense and amazing Purity of God.
To be in the face of Pure Innocence and Goodness changed my life two years ago. It was like encountering a solid rock, immovable, strong, pure.
I was in the Presence of an immutable God, an Absolute Purity, so strong that this encounter changed me into a person realizing how the slightest sin is an insult. That more than one person is experiencing this can only be described as sheer grace. Why this is happening to some, I cannot say..............
But, one must be brave and be open to change.
One must be brave enough to stand up to those who think one is being over-sensitive to sin.
If you had experienced what I did, you would fear sin and death, without the Great Mercy of Christ.
Which is part of the experience--the reason for the Crucifixion and Death of Our Lord. Following the judgement comes Mercy and Love.
Nothing else matters except accepting His Love, which is so beyond anything we can imagine.
Secondly, one must be willing to change, drastically, focussing on Christ and His Kingdom, focussing on God the Father, Who is All in All, and the Holy Spirit, Who is Love.
What else matters? I did not ask for this grace and neither have others who have experienced God thus.
Grace for a great sinner. I sin constantly. I fail myself and others. I insult God.
I hope you are inspired, LM. God be with you always, and I shall pray for you especially today. May you live in God's Love. Bye, I am supposed to be on retreat!
Wednesday, 25 April 2012
The Purity of God
 |
| Dante Seeing Beatrice for the First Time: Holiday |
God is Just, not as a human judge, but because He is All-Good and All-Loving. In the Face of Perfect Love, one sees one's limitations, failings imperfections, sins.
Last year, I know a person who had such an experience of the Purity of God. In one purgatorial moment, in December of 2011, he experienced being in the Presence of Pure Goodness, Pure Innocence, and how the smallest transgression was like the worst sin in the proximity of God. This he experienced, and wept for his sin, for failing God. This was very much like the particular judgement, except that he did not die, and that he knew that if he said yes to suffering, he was saying yes to life, to love. And, yet, experiencing Love, Who is God, had been through an other, his beloved friend, whom he wanted to marry, whom he had hurt rather inadvertently, which caused this moment of grace. This person said that his small imperfection, which many would think is not even a sin, caused him such grief in the Face of the Living Purity Who is God, that he sobbed for two and one-half hours. He felt two things and he knew two things: that God is all Just and that God is all Love. And, that if God did move the heart of his loved one to love him, it would be grace and not anything he deserved. He was, metaphorically, stripped naked in the Sight of God. All of his life and history was in the Will of God. He also understood that his one small imperfection merited hell, not merely purgatory, and that the Passion of Christ had taken away his own punishment. I do not know the end of the story. But, I am sure the man was changed forever. He does not mind that I share this with you. He thought, perhaps, that his moment of a glimpse of the particular judgement would help others understand the magnitude of the Love and Purity of God.
This story, which is true, is amazing. That a man could see his imperfection, and in Love, in the Presence of God, still know that he could have been damned showed me that God's Justice is actually God's Love. Any other understanding is pure sentimentality and far from the teaching of the Church.
 |
| Dante meeting Beatrice in Heaven: Rossetti |