Ruminations of an Irascible Hermit.: Rest in the Divine Indwelling of love

Friday, December 2, 2022

Rest in the Divine Indwelling of love

These beautiful words of advice are from the Proslogion of St Anselm that was part of the Office of Readings for today. In the busyness and stress of life, we can forget that God is always near us and within us. As baptised Catholics we have the honour and privilege to be a Temple of the Holy Spirit, and so we also have what is called the “Divine Indwelling” of the Holy Trinity. For where one person of the Trinity is - the other two are also present.

Today I invite you to take some quiet time with God. Sit in silence, breathe and focus on the fact that God loves you so much that he unites himself with you through the sacraments and prayer. Seek out the Lord, but don’t go searching outside, seek within. Look for God in the inner recesses of your heart. Raise up your mind and your soul to God, recollect yourself and offer your heart as the altar of communion.

Abide with Jesus in the silence of yourself, and He will make His Presence known to you. Rest in His love, soak in intimacy with the Creator of heaven & earth who chooses to seek you out and hide in you - so that you have to go within yourself to find He has always been with you.

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Please note. I am a Catholic layman, not a qualified theologian or philosopher. What I say and write here are my own personal thoughts and ideas, although I always try to conform my writings to the Magisterium of the Church.

I- with firm faith believe and profess everything that is contained in the symbol of faith: namely,

I believe in one God, the Father, the Almighty, maker of heaven and earth, of all that is seen and unseen. I believe in one Lord, Jesus Christ, the only Son of God, eternally begotten of the Father, God from God, Light from Light, true God from true God, begotten, not made, one in Being with the Father. Through him all things were made. For us men and for our salvation he came down from heaven: By the power of the Holy Spirit, he was born of the Virgin Mary, and became man. For our sake he was crucified under Pontius Pilate; he suffered, died and was buried. On the third day he rose again in fulfillment of the Scriptures; he ascended into heaven and is seated at the right hand of the Father. He will come again in glory to judge the living and the dead, and his kingdom will have no end. I believe in the Holy Spirit, the Lord, the giver of life, who proceeds from the Father and the Son. With the Father and the Son he is worshipped and glorified. He has spoken through the Prophets. I believe in the one holy catholic and apostolic church. I acknowledge one baptism for the forgiveness of sins. I look for the resurrection of the dead, and the life of the world to come. Amen.

With firm faith I believe as well everything contained in God's word, written or handed down in tradition and proposed by the church--whether in solemn judgment or in the ordinary and universal Magisterium--as divinely revealed and called for faith.

I also firmly accept and hold each and every thing that is proposed by that same church definitively with regard to teaching concerning faith or morals.

What is more, I adhere with religious submission of will and intellect to the teachings which either the Roman pontiff or the college of bishops enunciate when they exercise the authentic Magisterium even if they proclaim those teachings in an act that is not definitive.