How God is Present to us:
Have you ever thought about all the ways that God is present to us? Theologians have come up with a long list:
God is present by his power. He can do anything, anywhere, anytime. God is present by his sustaining causal power. If God didn’t keep you and me and the whole universe in existence at every single second, we’d fall back into nothingness, we’d be annihilated, instantly.
God is present by his knowledge of everything. He sees intimately, everything that happens everywhere. Most importantly, Jesus makes God present to us. Jesus is present in his humanity that walked the earth. Jesus is present in your soul by the grace of Baptism. Jesus is present in the ordained priest and Bishop. Jesus is present in the poor. Jesus is especially present in the Eucharist.
But there’s a very special way in which Jesus is present, and maybe we don’t think about it enough. Jesus declared, “Where two or three gather in my name, I am there with them.” When we gather in the Holy Name of Jesus, He powerfully joins us.
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