There is more than Prose when we consider Christ and our prayers!

There is more than Prose when we consider Christ and our prayers!

We cannot just kneel and utter words that someone wrote for our convenience.  Prayer consists of a total adherence to what is said with an example of what we behold when calling upon the grace that the Holy Spirit holds before us. 

The Mea Culpa; “Through my fault” should remind each of us that we have fallen from grace.  Recall the scenario that occurred in the Garden that God graciously handed to Adam because his creation of man was his pride of humanity.  Then God said; “Let us make man in our image, after our likeness.”  God created man in his image; in the divine image he created him; male and female he created them.  (Gn 1: 26a, 27).

When God proclaimed his creation to be good he (God) looked  at everything he had made, and he found it very good.  (Gn 1: 31).

Why would God, the Creator, not feel good since his greatest accomplishment was humanity that would kneel before the Throne of Righteousness and give praise to their blessed Holy Trinity that is the pride of eternity life for us; Eternal Life.

“Blessed are the pure of heart, for they shall see God.”  It is true, because of the greatness and inexpressible glory of God, that man shall not see and live,” for the Father cannot be grasped.  But because of God’s love and goodness toward us, and because he can do all things, he goes so far as to grant those who love him the privilege of seeing him…For “what is impossible for men is possible for God.”  (St. Irenaeus).

When God reveals Himself and calls him, man cannot fully respond to the divine love by his own powers.  He must hope that God will give him the capacity to love Him in return and to act in conformity with the commandments of charity.  Hope is the confident expectation of divine blessing and the beatific vision of God; it is also the fear of offending God’s love and if incurring punishment.  (CCC 2090).

Therefore, there is always the concern that we might forget the reality of keeping our hearts set on the words we spoke at our baptism or our God-parents standing for us as Power of Attorney for decisions we would acknowledge.

Jesus himself affirms that God is “the one Lord” whom you must love “with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your mind, and with all your strength.”  At the same time Jesus gives us to understand that he himself is “the Lord.”  To confess that Jesus is Lord is distinctive of Christian faith.  This is not contrary to belief in the One God.  Nor does believing in the Holy Spirit as “Lord and giver of life” introduce any division into the One God.  (CCC 202).  

Believing in One God is essential when we are baptized and throughout our Christian life.  We firmly believe and confess without reservation that there is one true God, eternal, infinite and unchangeable, incomprehensible, and ineffable, the Father  and the Son and the Holy Spirit; three persons indeed, but one essence, substance or nature entirely simple.  (Lateran Council IV.).

Ralph B. Hathaway