Team Spritual Care: Can you see God and live to tell about it?

Sister Kateri Theriault: Mission Integration

 
“No one,” God says in the Book of Exodus, “can see me and live” (33:20)—almost no one, that is. Moses, for example, used to speak with God “face to face, as a person speaks to a friend” (Exodus 33:11) without undergoing instant vaporization. Christian theology calls this experience the beatific vision: the total heavenly awareness of God that would overwhelm most mortals during their earthly lives. That doesn’t mean you can’t get a glimpse of the Divine every now and then. The worship and service you offer as a Christian opens a door to the holy and will carry you all the way to the fullness of complete communion with God forever.

TODAY’S READINGS: Acts 18:9-18; John 16:20-23 (295)
“I will see you again, and your hearts will rejoice.”