The proclamation of the Word of God has Christian conversion as its aim: a complete and sincere adherence to Christ and his Gospel through faith. Conversion is a gift of God, a work of the Blessed Trinity. It is the Spirit who opens people’s hearts so that they can believe in Christ and ‘confess him’ (cf. 1 Cor 12:3); of those who draw near to him through faith Jesus says: ‘No one can come to me unless the Father who sent me draws him’ (Jn 6:44). From the outset, conversion is expressed in faith which is total and radical and which neither limits nor hinders God’s gift. At the same time, it gives rise to a dynamic and lifelong process which demands a continual turning away from ‘life according to the flesh’ to ‘life according to the Spirit’ (cf. Rom 8:3-13). Conversion means accepting, by a personal decision, the saving sovereignty of Christ and becoming his disciple.” ~Pope John Paul II

In our personal relationship with the divine mystery we should not settle for sterile intellectualism, hollow ritualism, white-knuckled moralism, or anonymous collectivism that places dogmatic beliefs above our sacrifices serving Our Father's plan for our life.

We know God as a person. A personal God is the stark alternative to an impersonal “Force” that governs the universe, immune to the needs of the human race. The call of The Saviour invites us to let Him lead us through our life's journey.

“It is necessary to awaken again in believers a full relationship with Christ, mankind’s only Saviour. Only from a personal relationship with Jesus can an effective evangelization develop.”~ Pope John Paul II

Our relationship with The Saviour is never a matter of simply accepting Christ's Word into our life, but of waking each morning to serve the call of The Saviour to do all that He asks of us until the moment of our passing into eternity. The quid quo pro nature of our friendship with Our Father ensures that Divine Providence feeds us with all that we will ever need to implement Our Father's requests.

Those who live “by the flesh” experience God’s Law as a burden and, indeed, as a denial or, at least, a restriction of their own freedom. On the other hand, those who are impelled by love and “walk by the Spirit” (Gal 5:16), and who desire to serve others, find in God’s Law the fundamental and necessary way in which to practice love as something freely chosen, and freely lived out. Indeed, they feel an interior urge—a genuine “necessity” and no longer a form of coercion—not to stop at the minimum demands of the Law, but to live them in their “fullness.”
~ Pope John Paul 11

The Word made flesh resonates with those of us who on hearing, act with the awareness that it is the word of God, inviting us to be His outreach into the lives of those who as if by chance enter our orbit.

Faith is linked to hearing. Abraham does not see God, but hears his voice. Faith thus takes on a personal aspect. God is not the god of a particular place, or a deity linked to specific sacred time, but the God of a person, the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, capable of interacting with man and establishing a covenant with him. Faith is our response to a word which engages us personally, to a “Thou” who calls us by name. ~ Lumen Fidei. (1)

(1) http://w2.vatican.va/content/francesco/en/encyclicals/documents/papa-francesco_20130629_enciclica-lumen-fidei.html


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