God Sustains His Immensity in the Human Person
God is immensity. He nourishes me with his … immensity, and completely destroys my smallness and limitations. Myself entirely destroyed, his immensity works in me as though I had acted everywhere for his greater glory and the greater sanctification of souls. (OOCC, X, p. 458; STA, 502)
St. Vincent Pallotti experienced God as Immensity and Omnipresence. God’s immensity makes him capable of being present everywhere. There is nowhere the immense God is not present. According to the words of the Psalmist, no one can flee from God’s presence, as he is present in the heavens, in the netherworld and in the farthest limits of the ocean. Because of God’s immensity, besides being present everywhere, he is also able to perform different actions in different places at the same time. Viewing from the perspective of God’s immensity, St. Vincent Pallotti saw himself as limited and small, for he is conditioned by time and space. Limitations of time and space brought along with it a number of restrictions on him and as a result, he was not able to do the many things he wished to do for God. Hence, St. Vincent prayed that the immense God would nourish him with his immensity and destroy all types of restrictions that came from time-space conditioning. Having done away with all such restrictions, he wished that the immensity of God would work through him so that he could act everywhere at the same time for the glory of God and sanctification of persons. Because of this yearning in his heart to work zealously for God’s glory through God’s immensity and omnipresence, many times God had granted the gift of bi-location to St. Vincent Pallotti.
Do I have the zeal to work for God, bringing glory to him and sanctifying human persons? Do I have a longing to work for God, through God’s immensity?
From your presence where can I flee? If I go to the heavens you are there; if I sink to the netherworld, you are present there … If I settle at the farthest limits of the sea, even there your hand shall guide me, and your right hand hold me fast. (Ps. 139: 7-10)