new church life: november/december 2014
And then something uplifting:
Everyone knows that a married pair who love each other are interiorly united, and
that the essential of marriage is the union of dispositions and minds. (Heaven and
Hell 375)
Such views are unintelligible and irrelevant to many people. They would
say it is totally out of touch with reality. And they are right, of course – if reality
is only what you can see with your physical eyes. And it is even more out of
touch with reality if you throw morals out the window and allow the eye to
make all the decisions.
But if reality is more than that, if it is true what all religions in all times
have tried to describe and explain, then we have two definitions of reality that
stand against each other. And that is exactly what it is. Some people think you
can find paradise here on earth. Others believe it is something beyond this
physical world, on a different plane, in another dimension.
Even the disciples had difficulty imagining the kingdom of God not being
an earthly kingdom. (cf Luke 19:11) They saw kings and princes who had power
and could do what they wanted. By following Jesus th H