08/03/2025
INTERIOR CALL FROM GOD
THE EXTERIOR CALL OF THE TRANSCENDENT
When people respond positively to evangelization efforts, they have already detected various signs of an interior call from God.
CHURCH COMMUNITY
The more a family attends church services, the more children will feel at home in a church community, which can become a form of a spiritual home – being at home with God or at home in the totality of things.
Some people who have fallen away from the Church frequently return to alleviate negative feelings. They begin to receive grace, a positive intervention from God through which they feel at home with Him. If they pray and worship, they can make this relationship more explicit.
However, if young people allow their relationship with God to slip because of apathy or skepticism, they begin to experience cosmic emptiness, alienation and loneliness. They don‘t know where to turn for answers or spiritual fulfillment.
There is such a thing as an exterior call to the Church. It can take the form of transcendent beauty and philosophical wisdom. Every church community provides this vital function. This explains why over 84% of the world’s population not only believes in God, but affiliates with a religion. Every culture throughout history has had a natural proclivity toward religion. Religion is a source not only of transcendent worship, but also of the law, health care, and social welfare and in some cases education.
Everyone is intertwined with everyone else. Individuals are not only inter-personal; they are transcendentally and cosmically interrelated. God has composed the body so that the members may have the same care for one another. We need one another, contribute to one another, and support one another through our Baptism into spiritual communion in Christ. We can contribute happiness, love, and goodness through our words and actions.
Therefore, church community is indispensable to our spiritual nature, fulfilment and destiny.
Jesus encouraged us to be part of a Church that He initiated through Peter and the other apostles. He promised that His Holy Spirit would operate in that Church until the end of time; despite the many weaknesses and failings of many individuals within that Church.
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Only this inspired, dynamic, living community of faith can make Scripture and tradition turn into a loving relationship with God.
Worship is an act of sharing with one another our relationship with God. This public act binds us more closely to both God and one another-fusing love of God and love of neighbor.
The American Psychiatric Association completed a study in 2004 comparing religious and nonreligious individuals: their su***de rates, substance abuse rates and other dysfunctions.
Nonreligious individuals have significantly higher su***de rates, impulsivity and aggression, substance abuse and detachment from relatives and close friends as well as a lack of purpose in life.
TRANSCENDENT BEAUTY
Beauty not only elevates the soul, it points tour spiritual natural and even to its origin in an absolutely beautiful Being, God. It enhances us and fulfills us and brings us to higher sense of reality -- a felt connection with God, which allows us to fall more deeply and passionately in love with the Creator.
SACRED BEAUTY
Many of us have had experiences of being moved by a beautiful church, sacred music, liturgy, and sacred art. These initially appeal to the senses, but they also point beyond themselves of the presence of God embedded in sacredness and joy. You become more aware of whom God is in His beauty, glory and love. You begin to investigate the nature of created reality, the existence of the soul and then to happiness, virtue and purpose in life.
Is there a heaven? Does God answer prayers? Does God guide us? Does God love us or is He indifferent to us? If these questions are to be answered, God will have to reveal Himself to us. Reason must be complemented by revelation.
A DYNAMIC ENCOUNTER WITH GOD
What source of revelation covers the widest range of evidence? Which one is consistent with reasonable precepts of justice, love and the good and the common good? We all truly long for intellectual justification of our faith.
We are not referring to logical or mathematical proofs but a choice between love, goods and beauties. We cannot move to Level Four by simply thinking that it is reasonable and responsible. We will have to make a choice. This requires what will be called a “little leap of faith”. It leads immediately to a dynamic encounter with a personal transcendent Being, God. It is a movement of the heart to respond to god’s interior call within us.
Every person has an interior awareness of the spiritual-sacred domain. We instinctively believe that we are more than just our material bodies, that our lives extend beyond this world, and that our being is distinct from that of other animals. We need a movement of our hearts and wills – not just an operation of our minds.
If we respond to God’s interior invitation to us; this results in grace, a favor from God such as inspiration, guidance, supernatural assistance and a deeper and closer relationship with Him. This leads us on journey or perhaps better an adventure in order to direct us to a pervasive, enduing and deep purpose in life.
It draws us into the search for evidence form reason to pursue religion, to be fulfilled by sacred worship and spiritual beauty and to take the risk to leap into the transcendent domain where reason cannot take us. We are not forced or manipulated into this relationship, but only invited into it.
If this dynamic encounter is not to fizzle out after a first fervor, it will require nurturing, and this normally takes two forms: active participation in a church community and personal prayer.
Right now we might be moving in a counterproductive direction. God is trying to tell you to change direction.
This little leap of faith becomes even littler and ultimately resolves itself into a certainty that God has been our ever-present and ever-loving guide on the stages of life’s way.
God will always invite us to experience Him in ever deeper ways. He provides the grace, guidance, protection and inspiration for our journey with Him. We will then be able to reach our most pervasive, enduring, and deep purpose in life. We will reach new depths of authentic empathy and love. We will be able to constructively contend with suffering and we will help others to cope with suffering. At the end of our lives we will leave a legacy of eternal and loving goodness.
Satisfying Our Restless Hearts: Spitzer, Robert J
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