Sunday, May 3, 2015

Sin, Justice and Judgment

Sin, Justice and Judgment    
By: Father Voigt (The Resistance)

A potter was at his wheel one day as a class of children looked on and the kids saw the potter begin to spin the wheel and shape a vase.  In the middle of the shaping a portion of the vase became too thin and collapsed.  The potter took the clay and crushed it and worked with it again and then placed it on the spindle.  Now it took a new shape and held firm; it was then placed in the oven to bake.  The potter turned to the children and explained that each piece of clay is distinct and that a potter has to choose the correct vase or pot to shape the clay according to its disposition.  

Weak spots determine the shape of our lives as well.  Our Lord told us that in our weakness His power will reach perfection.  Yes, it is our weakness that we must hand over to the good master Potter to shape us into the saints that He knows we can be.  For this reason He told the apostles that it is good for you that I go.  If I do not go then I cannot send the Holy Ghost Who will teach you the fullness of Truth.  The Holy Ghost will reveal to us the meaning of the life and death of our Lord.  

The Spirit of Truth will convict us of sin, justice and judgment.  He shall convict us of sin for we did not believe in the Son of Man.  If we believed in our Lord then our lives would be free of all attachment to the world, our flesh and the deceits of the devil.  Instead imitating children we like to walk the tightrope between heaven and hell.  We want the world and its pleasures all the while believing that if our will is done then heaven here we come.  No. The Holy Ghost will convict us of our sins.  

Following that conviction we will be convinced that Jesus is the Second Person of the Blessed Trinity and He stands at the right hand of the Father to plead our cause with the Blood shed on Calvary.  This is justice for God is given the glory and we can enter that glory if we pass through the purgation of all our mortal sins and illumined by the Holy Ghost we shall see our venial sins and our imperfections.  This shapes us into a life of perfection.  But the Holy Ghost will not be finished with us.  

In the progression of the spiritual life we must be convicted in the judgment of the King of kings.  Christ the king is the model and mode of our interior lives.  St. Paul's refrain "I live no longer I, but Christ lives in me."  The glory of God is our exclusive intention in thoughts, words and deeds.  We are free of the world, the flesh and the deceits of the devil have no place in our hearts.

It is good that our Lord returned to the Father to give us the Spirit of Truth and in that truth you and I are recreated in the image of God.  In this unitive state of life we will find an abundance of ways to grow in holiness and consequently, we will be happy. 
We have found the meaning of life in the glorification of the Holy and Blessed Trinity. Now we await eagerly the coming of our Lord in the death He has reserved for each of us as a testimony to our intense love for Him.  

Let the heart of Christ find in you the grace of a sincere heart detached from the world and all within the world and attached to His holy will for us in all events. Please pray in your charity for the soul of good Father Gruner, the Fatima Priest, who gave his life to the message of Our Lady of Fatima.  He is and will be missed by us all.

In the hearts of Jesus, Mary and Joseph,

Fr. Voigt

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