05/01/2021
The Loneliness of God
(All by Myself…don’t want to be all by Myself anymore)
As we begin this series of articles about Our Blessed Mother, we first must understand some basic principles. God has no need of anyone. The Godhead is perfect in its existence and has no need of a dependence. Otherwise, God would not be God. The very term of Infinite Supreme Being with Omnipotence and Omniscience (all powerful and all knowing) belies the truth that being God, all things must of necessity flow from this source. Nothing has existence apart from God. Nothingness is not a state of being. It is none-existence. Either we are or we are not.
Now we are going to try to understand in a very limited way a great mystery. Since God has no need of us, and we are totally dependent upon the sustaining life and grace of God, yet we find a certain dependence that God has placed upon Himself. Let me say that again. God has placed a certain necessity upon the very Godhead for our existence. How can this be?
“when with a certain law and compass he enclosed the depths:”
It is said that Love is a risky proposition. True. There is only one thing that is riskier than Love. That is not to Love. The nature of Love is to share. Goodness is a fruit of Love. God is Love as St. John tells us. Guess what? God took a chance and fell in Love. Yes, God who is love, succumbed to the very thing that embodies Divinity. An explosion of Love. (Interesting side note: the Hubble Telescope has given credence to the Big Bang theory which was advocated by Monsignor Georges Lemaître (1894-1966) who was a Catholic priest, astronomer, and professor of physics at the Catholic University of Leuven, Belgium. Lemaître first proposed what has since been named – at first pejoratively, but since compellingly – the “Big Bang Theory.” A compulsion from within… not from any force outside of God. A never-ending circle if you will. It could not have been otherwise. In this cycle within the Holy Trinity…Theologians have given it a term. We will simply remain in admiration of its process. God the Father infinitely loves God the Son… and a process takes place, not in time, but eternally. From the Love of the Father for the Son, a production of Spirit comes forth…the Holy Ghost. This cycle never had a beginning and will never have an end. We read in Genesis that “God breathed a spirit into Adam”. And so it begins. You see, Love demands an incarnation. God, who is Love, could not have remained alone. Yes, it is lonely at the top, so the only way out is to Love. Do we not say that Love makes the world go round? And so, God, in a Divine Rhapsody, fell in Love. So here we are, and we have existence. Now for what purpose?
Spirit Vs. Matter
It is one thing to say…. It is another to do. Many talk a good talk, but it is what one does. Think of how a young man is in love with a beautiful woman. He says he loves her. That is one thing. Where is the proof? You see, talk is cheap. But when a young man kneels at the feet of the woman that he is pursuing and offers a substantial sacrifice of effort and kneels at her feet, then we take another look. There is something here. A real effort has been made to court the feelings of the beloved. After all, diamonds are a girl’s best friend. Thus, we can surmise that what one says…. That is the spiritual realm. When someone does, that is the material.
What the Angels must Adore
On Christmas we read the words “Gloria in Excelsis Deo” sung by Angels. This is a profound truth. Angels must respect and adore God’s wisdom, otherwise they become demons. Likewise, we must adore the wisdom of God in becoming the unthinkable… a human being. And so it begins. God’s love is so profound and deep that we cannot fully fathom the depths of such love. We might liken the love of God for us as deep as the Sea. If you have ever seen the ocean, it is so immense as to remind us that we are very small and God is very Big. The word for Sea is Maris. So, the name Mary is derived from the depths of the Ocean and the Sea. It should be no wonder then that God chose a vessel to come to you and me. That vessel is so sublime and sacred, that no words can adequately describe the Love and Simpatico that took place between the Divine and Human element. We will in the following articles make a poor attempt to elucidate such a process but will be far inadequate in its attempt. Maybe the best thing we can do is just stand back in wonderment of such a great event…. For God so loved the world as to give us His only begotten Son. (John 3:15)
When Love stepped out of Eternity into Time
The Lord possessed me in the beginning of his ways before he made anything from the beginning. I was set up from eternity, and of old before the earth was made. The depths were not as yet, and I was already conceived. Neither had the fountains of waters as yet sprung out: The mountains with their huge bulk had not as yet been established: before the hills I was brought forth: He had not yet made the earth, nor the rivers, nor the poles of the world. When he prepared the heavens, I was present: when with a certain law and compass he enclosed the depths: When he established the sky above, and poised the fountains of waters: When he compassed the sea with its bounds, and set a law to the waters that they should not pass their limits: when be balanced the foundations of the earth; I was with him forming all things: and was delighted every day, playing before him at all times; Playing in the world: and my delights were to be with the children of men. Now therefore, ye children, hear me: Blessed are they that keep my ways. Hear instruction and be wise and refuse it not. Blessed is the man that heareth me, and that watcheth daily at my gates, and waiteth at the posts of my doors. He that shall find me, shall find life, and shall have salvation from the Lord: But he that shall sin against me, shall hurt his own soul. All that hate me love death.
Proverbs 8:22-36.
