The World The Soul And Things

EWTN Global Catholic Radio and St. Joseph Communications proudly present Life is Worth Living with Archbishop Fulton Shin. The 50-part series was recorded on photograph records in the 1960s and the sound quality is sometimes limited. But the word of God spoken by Archbishop Shin is timeless and now here in Archbishop Fulton Shin. Peace be to you. We have now come to the end of our conversations together. I'm sure that you've noticed in the course of all of these records how many imperfections I were. There may have been some words repeated. I possibly may have missed pronounced some words. Recording of themselves might have been inadequate. All this is due to the fact that we have not read. We have spoken to you out of our own heart. I'm not satisfied with these recordings as they are and I am sure that you are not. But I wish you would regard them just as a kind of maybe a piece of carbon. I was about to say a diamond. Whether it was a piece of carbon, perhaps it's a light and fire of your own charity shining through the carbon, well then they might turn into a diamond. So in conclusion about these everything that is pure in them is mine. Everything that is good in them is the Lord. If you are followed all of these I perhaps have led you step by step. Very much like our best of Lord led the woman at the well. You will remember that when he met her at noon, there were a number of steps that she took when we come into know our best of Lord. First of all she was rather discurreious to him. And she said to him, how is it that thou adjew speak to me as a Samaritan? The Jews in the Samaritans did not speak. That was all our Lord was to work it first, just a member of another nationality with whom the Samaritans had no relations. And then as she talked a little longer to him, he perceived that he was a gentleman or she called him Sarah. And then in a few minutes more when he began to put his finger onto her soul and to tell her it into a kind of uneasiness in particular to tell her that she had five husbands. And the man with whom she was living was not her husband. Then she said that he was a prophet. This was a step further in getting to know him. And then she went a little bit farther. When she said, I know that the Messiah is coming. The Narabhista George said to her, and take up how surprising it must have been to her when he said, it is I, the Christ, the Messiah who speaks to you. Well, she was so excited when she heard that she left her walker pot at the well and ran back into the village. And short time later, she comes out with a number of village people and then comes the last name. He is called the Savior of the world. So perhaps I may have led you to some understanding about the Narabhista Lord, namely, first of all, he was just a Jew. Then the great Jattles. And then after that, the Prophet then Christ the Messiah. And finally, the Savior of the world. That is really what he is. The Savior of the world. And we never know him until we know that truth. He's Savior because he died on the cross for us. Whenever the silence round about me by day or night, I am startled by a cry. It came down from the cross the first time I heard it. And I went out and searched and found the man in the throes of crucifixion. And I said, I will take you down. And I tried to take the nails out of his feet. But he said, let them be. For I cannot be taken down until every man, woman and child come together to take me down. But I said, what can I do? I cannot bear to cry. And he said, go into the world. And tell everyone that you meet. There is a man on the cross. That's what I told you. In all of these hours that we have spent together, there was a man on the cross. Now through that vision, may I bid you first to look at the world and then to look at your own soul. First of all, at the world, we are part of it. It is our world. We are responsible for it. And on the last day, we are going to be judged in the context of that world. Our best adores said that he would say to us, I was hungry. And you gave me two eats. I was thirsty. And you gave me two drinks. I was naked. And you clothe me. And we who are saved, the elect will ask, when? When did we see you hungry and give you to eat? Tirsty and give you to drink and naked, they will be clothe me. And he will say, when you did it to the least of these, my brother, you did it under me. In other words, there is the Christus in Cognitus, the unknown Christ in the world. In the poor, in the slums, in the fervilness. This is our world. And we cannot no Christ apart from them. I know there are many who are predicting this astor for the world, particularly in this atomic age of hours. Even in the close of the last century, there were some who were dimly envisioning this disaster. Then there are those who think of communism and if dangers, which indeed are very real, that we are never to be with our hope. Remember that great Russian novelist in writer of the 19th century? It was a kind of a prophet. He saw communism coming in Russia long before it ever existed, long before anyone ever thought of it. But he also saw it ending in Russia too. Before saw a day, when the devil's wood commends a Russian, possess it, body and soul. And then he calls for the gospel. And he picks up that particular passage in the gospel. Where our vested lord describes the devil out of a young man into the swine, we are drawn to the sea. Gostryevsky says, that's my Russia, my beloved Russia. It will one day be filled with devils, but the devils will be driven out of Russia. And they will be pushed back, unbacked and back into the sea. And there they will be drawn. And Russia will sit at the feet of Christ and learn his thoughts. Yes, there's hope. Hope even in the midst of all of our trials and disasters and darkness, for we are never without God. If we but return to him all can be changed. They can be changed as noise described as the home of swimburn. Remember the English poet, Swinburn, who wrote, glory to man in the highest, for man is the master of all. Alfred noise, the English atheist, before his conversion, visited Swinburn at his paternal home in Bonn, Churchill. Swinburn took him into the library. A swimburn's fet he wrote as atheistic poetry. They began talking about Christianity. And noise said he literally spat out his words. Years passed. Swinburn went to meet the God and he denied and was his judge. And noise later on was received into the trip. And noise went back again to Bonn, but walked up that same long line of lilac tree, before he met our children, and closed in white. Now they walked their blocked flowers, and followed them into the home. It was now a conflict, a conflict of the sacred heart. The day was the feast of God's crystal, the feast of the body of Christ. And noise goes into the chapel. The chapel is in your library. And as a moment of meditation, when noise rays his eyes, to look at our Lord and the best of sacrament, his eyes also fell upon that great window which he had seen and it first vivid. And it's on that window where the initials of the paternal Swinburn unchained, I H S. This is the Hebrew name, or Jesus. And thus all things can be changed, that the power of God so swiftly and socially. Now as regards your soul, may I speak of sub-intermities of love. Are our pre-degrees of intimacy? The first one is speech. We would never know that anyone loved us unless he told us so. A word is the summation of a character, all that a person is and all that he will be. We need only here a person to speak and we can say he's a kind man. He is a cruel man, he is an individual man. So the first intimacy of all our love is we must be told, we must be here. Your God is spoken. And I told you about that in Revelation. Open up your scripture. You hear the word of God. But is that all? It is not enough just nearly to hear the voice of the beloved. We want to see the beloved. We want to see words born on human lips. We want to see the earnestness of a vision of flesh of an eye. And so if God is really to love us, it must not only be heard, it must be seen. One day, the angel came out from the great white throne of light and came to a humble virgin kneeling in prayer. Full of grace. These were not words. They were not words. The word became flesh, the blood amongst us. And so God was seen in the form of man. And you see in the true that the eye is a faith. You will see him in the flesh of sacrament for the eyes of faith. You will see him in his church, the continuation of his incarnation. You will see him also in the poor. But that's not all. Or yes, I might say that the speech in the vision of God is very much like the relationship between radio and television. In the old testimony of this radio, we hear the voice of God, but do not see him in the new testimony of this television where we not only hear with sea God. But is there not yet another intimacy of love? Morse, they quit and profound steal. There is one so delicate that the greatest insult anyone can show us who knows us not. Mr. Meguse of it. And that is the intimacy of touch. And so, if our blessed Lord is to exhaust all of the intimacy of love, you must touch and be touched. He was touched by Thomas by the sire of Phoenician woman. And he touched the leper in the sink. And as for you, with the gift of faith, it comes to you, you will have this gift of touch which is reserved for you. Only for the intimate, the ecstasy of holy country. For just as it marriage, the peak of love is unity of two in one flesh. Only Eucharist, the peak of love is unity of two in one flesh. And it is my forping prayer to thought that there may come to reach in every one of you who listen to me. This dirt and most beautiful of all intimacy. That is your soul as regards the sacraments. Now let me say something about things, the world which you live. Every single action of your daily work, it makes no difference what you do. Sweeping in the street, teaching classes. Everything could be made of prayer. Every action is a kind of a blank check. A blank check that has value only if the name of our Lord is signed to it. And that is why St Paul said whether you eat or drink or whatever you do, do it in the name of Christ. And so the tiny little actions of your daily life, as a mother, as a father, as a workman, as a teacher, as a nurse, as a secretary, all of these can be divinized, sacramentalized, provided you bring to them the divine intention. This is prayer, prayer of action. Down in the gutter of a city street, there's a drop of water, soil, dirty and stagnant. And way up in the heavens the gentle sunbeam saw it, leaped from out the azure sky down to the drop, kissed it, threw it through and through with new strange, and hopes lifted it up higher and higher and higher beyond the clouds. And one day left it as a flake of a macadet snow on a mountain top. And so your hungram root, keen work-a-day world can be transmuted and chained. Just on condition that you do it all with the name of Christ. It is not important what you do in this world, it is how you do it. Shakespeare said, all the world is a stage. And why should he who plays the part of the king, glory in his tinsel, crown and tin sword, think that he's better than the one who plays the role of a peasant? When the curtain goes down, they're just actors. And when the curtain of our life goes down, we will what role we play. We will only be asked how well we play the role that was assigned to us. So it will not be hard to say your soul. But let me tell you this, being a Catholic will never prevent you from sinning. But I can tell you one thing, it will take all the fun out of it. The reason it will take all the fun out of it is because you once have loved. You know what love is, like no one else. And that is why sin in the scriptures always called adultery, because it supports love. Oh yes, I know you will find people who will cut corners and will play loose and cheat. Tell me with adultery, right-wing their taxes, ruin their neighbor's reputation and the like. They apparently do not seem to have any bumps on their conscience. But they have no peace. No peace. So that if we are ready to love, we do have to have a cross. This is the cross of Christ. We cannot escape it. We try to. I slip his finger. I escape his finger. I ran in heat for him. I fear to meet. One day I passed him, better down a tree. He turned his head and looked and veck at me. Neither by speed nor speech could he prevail. Each hand and foot was pinioned by an ale. He could not run, nor class me if he cried. But with his eye he badly reached his side. For pity's sake said, I ask that you free. May it take this cross and follow me. This yoke is easy, this burden light, not hard nor grievous, if you wear it tight. And so did I follow him who could not move. An uncracked captive in the hands of love. Our time is up. I must take leave of you now. I have enjoyed being with you. I hope you have properties. Perhaps our hearts are going to be together. They do in long conversations. It may I remain you, the true hearts, my heart. I'm not perfect to shape and come to a like a Valentine heart. There is a small piece missing out of the side of every human heart. That may be to symbolize the piece that was torn out of the universal heart of humanity on the cross. But I think the real meaning is that when God made your heart, He found it so good, so lovable that He kept a small sample of it in heaven. And sent the rest of your heart into this world. Where you would cry to be happy. And when where you could not be perfectly happy because you did not have a whole heart to love with. And so, as always, we remind you that to be truly peaceful, to be really happy, to be really whole hearted. You must go back again to God to recover that peace that He has been keeping for you from all eternity. Your heart will be there in heaven in peace, God. So, remind me, I will see you in the heart of God. By now, and God love you. This has been Life's Worth Living with Archbishop Fulton Shin. For more information about this series, contact St. Joseph Communications at 1-800-526-2151. Outside the U.S. call 818-3313-3549. And please join us again next time, for Life's Worth Living with Archbishop Fulton Shin on EWTN Global Catholic Radio.