Daily Reflections
by Cathy

October 14, 2019 – Abandon yourself completely to God!

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October 14, 2019
St. Callistus I

Dear Family of Mary!

“…Abandon yourselves completely to His will and do not be afraid. Everything that is best for you, everything that leads you to eternal life, will be given to you. You will comprehend that the purpose of life is not always to want and take, but to love and give. You will have true peace and true love. You will be apostles of love….” (October 2, 2019)

In our modern age, it is very hard to understand that everything about our existence is gift. We have been told over and over again that the world of matter just “is”. The word “creation” seems to have been erased from the dictionary, at least in terms of God the Creator. But we believe that God created the universe, and everything in it. We believe He is intimately involved in everything the exists, and that He is working in creation to bring us to Himself. That is why we should not be afraid. We are NOT ALONE in this world.

The Catechism of the Catholic Church speaks directly to God as Creator in this section:

IV. THE MYSTERY OF CREATION 

God creates by wisdom and love

295 We believe that God created the world according to his wisdom.141 It is not the product of any necessity whatever, nor of blind fate or chance. We believe that it proceeds from God’s free will; he wanted to make his creatures share in his being, wisdom and goodness: “For you created all things, and by your will they existed and were created.”142 Therefore the Psalmist exclaims: “O LORD, how manifold are your works! In wisdom you have made them all”; and “The LORD is good to all, and his compassion is over all that he has made.”143 God creates “out of nothing”

296 We believe that God needs no pre-existent thing or any help in order to create, nor is creation any sort of necessary emanation from the divine substance.144 God creates freely “out of nothing”:145  If God had drawn the world from pre-existent matter, what would be so extraordinary in that? A human artisan makes from a given material whatever he wants, while God shows his power by starting from nothing to make all he wants.146 
 
297 Scripture bears witness to faith in creation “out of nothing” as a truth full of promise and hope. Thus the mother of seven sons encourages them for martyrdom:
I do not know how you came into being in my womb. It was not I who gave you life and breath, nor I who set in order the elements within each of you. Therefore the Creator of the world, who shaped the beginning of man and devised the origin of all things, will in his mercy give life and breath back to you again, since you now forget yourselves for the sake of his laws. . . Look at the heaven and the earth and see everything that is in them, and recognize that God did not make them out of things that existed. Thus also mankind comes into being.147

298 Since God could create everything out of nothing, he can also, through the Holy Spirit, give spiritual life to sinners by creating a pure heart in them,148 and bodily life to the dead through the Resurrection. God “gives life to the dead and calls into existence the things that do not exist.”149 and since God was able to make light shine in darkness by his Word, he can also give the light of faith to those who do not yet know him.150
God creates an ordered and good world

299 Because God creates through wisdom, his creation is ordered: “You have arranged all things by measure and number and weight.”151 The universe, created in and by the eternal Word, the “image of the invisible God”, is destined for and addressed to man, himself created in the “image of God” and called to a personal relationship with God.152 Our human understanding, which shares in the light of the divine intellect, can understand what God tells us by means of his creation, though not without great effort and only in a spirit of humility and respect before the Creator and his work.153 Because creation comes forth from God’s goodness, it shares in that goodness – “and God saw that it was good. . . very good”154- for God willed creation as a gift addressed to man, an inheritance destined for and entrusted to him. On many occasions the Church has had to defend the goodness of creation, including that of the physical world.155

God transcends creation and is present to it

300 God is infinitely greater than all his works: “You have set your glory above the heavens.”156 Indeed, God’s “greatness is unsearchable”.157 But because he is the free and sovereign Creator, the first cause of all that exists, God is present to his creatures’ inmost being: “In him we live and move and have our being.”158 In the words of St. Augustine, God is “higher than my highest and more inward than my innermost self”.159

God upholds and sustains creation

301 With creation, God does not abandon his creatures to themselves. He not only gives them being and existence, but also, and at every moment, upholds and sustains them in being, enables them to act and brings them to their final end. Recognizing this utter dependence with respect to the Creator is a source of wisdom and freedom, of joy and confidence:
For you love all things that exist, and detest none of the things that you have made; for you would not have made anything if you had hated it. How would anything have endured, if you had not willed it? Or how would anything not called forth by you have been preserved? You spare all things, for they are yours, O Lord, you who love the living.160  
141 Cf. Wis 9:9. 142 ⇒ Rev 4:11.   143 ⇒ Pss 104:24; ⇒ 145:9.   144 Cf. Dei Filius, cann. 2-4: DS 3022-3024.   145 Lateran Council IV (1215): DS 800; cf. DS 3025.   146 St. Theophilus of Antioch, Ad Autolycum II, 4: PG 6, 1052.   147 2 Macc 7:22-21, 28.   148 Cf. ⇒ Ps 51:12. 149 ⇒ Rom 4:17.   150 Cf. ⇒ Gen 1:3; ⇒ 2 Cor 4:6.   151 Wis 11:20.   152 ⇒ Col 1:15, ⇒ Gen 1:26.   153 Cf. ⇒ Ps 19:2-5; ⇒ Job 42:3. 154 ⇒ Gen 1:4, ⇒ 10, ⇒ 12, ⇒ 18, ⇒ 21, ⇒ 31. 155 Cf. DS 286; 455-463; 800; 1333; 3002.   156 ⇒ Ps 8:1; cf. ⇒ Sir 43:28.   157 ⇒ Ps 145:3 158 ⇒

Acts 17:28. 159 St. Augustine, Conf: 3, 6, 11: PL 32, 688. 16A0 Wis 11:24-26. 

http://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0015/__P19.HTM

God upholds and sustains us in being, enabling us to act and bring us to our final end!! Heaven!! We have nothing to fear. Our Father loves us!!

In Jesus, Mary and Joseph!
Cathy Nolan
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