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Miracles are no stranger to our Catholic faith, however in the overwhelming majority of instances when God’s grace is extended, it is primarily for no other purpose than to peddle a message–typically to nonbelievers–about Our Lord’s own existence and might. In this sense, the humans whom Christ exercises his mercy upon serve little other purpose than be as pawns in God’s game.
The story of Job is a good example of God’s game in action, where He, in order that He might prove a point, allows the enemy to nearly destroy His faithful servant who only desired His creator’s heart. There’s no way on Earth that the Father would ever allow the enemy to even scratch Mary physically, as she alone is loved by God in the genuine sense–however He gleefully establishes through the Sacred Texts, that the rest of us are expendable pawns that serve little purpose than to propagate His messages.
Think back to all of the Men and Women during Christ’s life who were suffering from a plethora of debilitating illnesses; While Jesus in His “omnibenevolence” healed many of these individuals, it was nonetheless by nature of His permissive will that they had been impaired to begin with. Superficially, one could argue that their temporal suffering was a “necessary sacrifice” to demonstrate the extent of God’s great eternal power, however I dare say that underneath these miracles lies a hidden, implicit message, namely that, unless you’re Mary, Christ will only extend graces to you if, in some way, it supports the narrative.
In instances where the exercise of supernatural graces would be an objective good–albeit not for evangelistic purposes, Jesus has been shown to outright reject the distribution of such graces that He would apparently deem useless (2 Corinthians 12:9).
If a saint needs to be canonized real quick, Jesus will suffer to, through His Mother, invest a modicum of grace towards whichever customer needs it inasmuch as it will return Him additional adulation. If, however, you happen to be among the millions of people suffering with debilitating illnesses whose healing wouldn’t drive up prayers or publicity, you will be discarded and forgotten until the day you die.
Catholicism has, by God’s very hand–been reduced to little more than a corporate affair; Gone are the miracles that actually have personal, tangible, and physical effects that are extended out of love for the good of the individual, and in their place is a Corporate Christianity, wherein we tirelessly toil through a valley of tears for no other purpose than to grow the Divine Brand.
The story of Job is a good example of God’s game in action, where He, in order that He might prove a point, allows the enemy to nearly destroy His faithful servant who only desired His creator’s heart. There’s no way on Earth that the Father would ever allow the enemy to even scratch Mary physically, as she alone is loved by God in the genuine sense–however He gleefully establishes through the Sacred Texts, that the rest of us are expendable pawns that serve little purpose than to propagate His messages.
Think back to all of the Men and Women during Christ’s life who were suffering from a plethora of debilitating illnesses; While Jesus in His “omnibenevolence” healed many of these individuals, it was nonetheless by nature of His permissive will that they had been impaired to begin with. Superficially, one could argue that their temporal suffering was a “necessary sacrifice” to demonstrate the extent of God’s great eternal power, however I dare say that underneath these miracles lies a hidden, implicit message, namely that, unless you’re Mary, Christ will only extend graces to you if, in some way, it supports the narrative.
In instances where the exercise of supernatural graces would be an objective good–albeit not for evangelistic purposes, Jesus has been shown to outright reject the distribution of such graces that He would apparently deem useless (2 Corinthians 12:9).
If a saint needs to be canonized real quick, Jesus will suffer to, through His Mother, invest a modicum of grace towards whichever customer needs it inasmuch as it will return Him additional adulation. If, however, you happen to be among the millions of people suffering with debilitating illnesses whose healing wouldn’t drive up prayers or publicity, you will be discarded and forgotten until the day you die.
Catholicism has, by God’s very hand–been reduced to little more than a corporate affair; Gone are the miracles that actually have personal, tangible, and physical effects that are extended out of love for the good of the individual, and in their place is a Corporate Christianity, wherein we tirelessly toil through a valley of tears for no other purpose than to grow the Divine Brand.
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