Your Questions, Answered
Lord I Need You, Where Are You? - Questions From A Young Man
FROM LIFE: Understanding The Love Of God The Father
It was the Sunday mass. I admit that I wasn’t paying much attention but looking around at the people there. Even when we get distracted God has a way of reeling us back in. As I was sitting at the back, I was noticing every person walking past, either late or keeping their children entertained. At one point the latter passed by. The verse from Matthew 7:11 came to me.
A dad and his child, just a toddler learning to walk paced the aisle as the dad tried to quieten the child and simultaneously listen to the priest...
Prayer: 15 mins in the earthly paradise
Lord God - Your Presence embraces me.
I abide in You as a fish breathes in pure water.
In You I live, in You I move, in You I respite.
I cannot possibly flee from your presence.
From the Bible
BIBLE VERSES ABOUT GOD
"God is light, and in him there is no darkness—none at all!"
1 John 1:5
"Dear friends, let us love one another, for love comes from God. Everyone who loves has been born of God and knows God."
1 John 4:7
From the Fathers of the Church
"You made us for Yourself, O Lord; and our heart is restless until it rests in you."
St Augustine of Hippo
POEM: WHERE IS GOD?
Daniel Spiteri
‘Where is God now?’, I have been asked.
‘Where is God when his children die?
Where is God when all this evil is unmasked?
Where is God when families are torn apart
By their anxieties, and by the rule of law?
Where is your God when I lost heart?’
From the Popes
TOP POPES' QUOTES ABOUT GOD'S GOODNESS
"I believe in God, not in a Catholic God, there is no Catholic God, there is God and I believe in Jesus Christ, his incarnation. Jesus is my teacher and my pastor, but God, the Father, Abba, is the light and the Creator. This is my Being. Do you think we are very far apart?"
Pope Francis to atheist newspaper editor of La Repubblica - Eugenio Scalfari, 2013
Experiencing God "with me" and yet as the "totally other"
If one is to ask various persons, if they believe in God, probably they will say 'yes'. If one is to ask, "who is God?" or "what is God?" there will probably be as many different answers as there are people! In ancient philosophy, God is described as the Unmoved mover, the all-knowing, eternal and transcendent. In Christianity, according to Scriptures, God revealed his name as YHWH: the God Who Is. From the very first book of Scriptures, God is seen creating the universe, the stars, our planet and finally the human being. So God can be called the Creator of heaven and earth. In the New Testament, we find Jesus Christ calling God as Father and revealing God to be a Triune God: Father, Son and Spirit. Hence, in Christianity, we speak of the Trinity. Throughout the centuries, God was experienced as the God with us and yet as the Totally Other.