Simplified belief
A person who believes in God is
a Theistic person, while one who does not believe in God is an Atheist. A
person who believes in one God is a ‘monotheist’ while a person who believes in
many gods is a ‘polytheist’. Christians and Muslims both believe in one God. In
Greek mythology, there are both male and female gods. The God of the Hindu is
Brahman, even a god with ten thousand hands. Brahman is closely associated with
his two friends Vishnu and Shiva. Greeks have considered mythology and has
regarded as goddess one whom they named Venus. Likewise, there are many other
beliefs.
Christianity, Jewish and Islam religion both believe in one God.
Others believe in impersonal god or a god who is not a person, while Catholics
and some other Christian religions believe in a personal God or a God who is a
person. Extreme consciousness is called ‘nirvana’. The Jews called their God, Yahweh, while
Muslims call him Allah.
God is personal because he can be felt and continue to
influence us in our daily lives and continue to create great things even
through miracles. He is personal because he revealed himself and continually
communicates to us. He creates all things. Our God did create air. He uses water
to create which has a Latin word ‘Agua’ or in chemistry ‘H2O’. You have to drink
water to experience water. That’s why we need to drink God, and having done so
we have tasted God who exist in everything and in everyone, and who is the God
of the Catholic Christians. If we believe in one God, we should believe in the
blessed Trinity, which is the three (3) assertions, or one God in three
persons. You don’t have to criticize other religions, your belief should be as
clear as water, and pure.
We should have a belief that is of the child’s likeness, like of
the gaiety of the Infant Jesus of Prague or the Sto. Niño. We should have a
taste of the Sto Niño so we could be helped to considerably obtain in our own
little way as a Christian the great knowledge of God as revealed by his spirit
which is the Holy Spirit. I have tasted God being a religious or belonging to
the religious congregation called Franciscan Conventuals or the Order Friars
Minor Conventual. Being a religious, priests there don’t have a salary; each
one’s money is the money of all. We don’t hide any amount, but all goes to the
religious congregation. If you have acquired something, it is given to the
congregation.
Being in the religious congregation, Fr. Glenn Paul Gomez Rome and witnessing the Dubai ,
Germany and
Poland , France , Lourdes .
testifies of going to
canonization of saints and the great miracles in year 2003, and have gone to
and even meet Pope John Paul II and have audience with him. He learned the word
‘grati’ or ‘thank you’. He stayed a week in
where Mama Mary appeared in
We should derive inspiration from God, like that which we obtain
from the healing Eucharist, which is a fruit of love. ABS-CBN has the coverage
of the Healing Eucharist where there are 23 persons in-charge, like the audio
man, cameramen, and director. The God as the one Catholics serve is genuine.
“This is our God, springing from the fruit of our prayers”, says Fr. Glenn.
He asserts that there is Cavite , a Summa Cum Laude, and an
enlightenment in prayer with God as you learn from God. With this, everybody
understands you, like for example we have Chito Tagle of Imus,
international Theologian. All can understand you if your explanations are
clear, which is a product of prayers and meditations, and your resurrection
from illness and desert life.
The Holy Spirit in our life created everything. God gave
everything for free. He even created man or put man to flesh. This is what we
called incarnation or made manifest in flesh. Jesus is the God that was
manifested in flesh. So this answers our question in our book title. God
was made visible by manifesting in flesh through the Infant Jesus of Prague or
the Sto. Niño, and manifesting as God the Holy Spirit through the Pentecost.
The Holy Spirit did communicate as the Third Person of the Para ’ means ‘alone’, while
Trinity. ‘
‘Paraclete’ means ‘Advocate God’. ‘Advocare’ means ‘he created for us’. The
original word for spirit is ‘pneuma’. If you have the spirit, it means you are
alive. That’s why there is spirit in the community meaning the community is
alive. On the Pentecost, the Apostles and disciples spoke different languages
and understood one another. The community did have understanding of each other.
The real Spirit is in the community like the Sto. Niño Catholic Charismatic
Renewal and Revival Community found in Kalibo, Aklan.
All of us serve God. Our edge from others is serving God. Our
vision of vocation widens with serving God. You develop the feeling of love
through serving God, no matter who you are or what you are. You don’t need to
complain, even if you become a bachelor for your entire life. Prayer on the
other hand is conversation. You need to communicate with God, and to
consciously connect yourself with your God. Like when you switch on the light,
the room becomes flooded with light. You’ve got to have a thorough prayer.
If you are connected with God, you don’t feel weary in anything
you do. Your prayer should be this: OPEN THE EYES OF MY HEART LORD. Then, you
will understand the mystery of God in a flood of insights and enlightenment,
even pouring out freely from the container. You’ve got to have faith, and faith
in God merits all. It can give you all the simple things you can desire in a
simplified belief.
- Jose Constante I. Nartatez
