Launching into the Deep
Plunge into God and you will find him everywhere; then you ever find him to be all love and all mercy towards you. (OCL, IV, 1047, p. 333)
For St. Vincent Pallotti, God’s presence is real and active in the world. He is present as the God who is infinite, immense, incomprehensible, and unlimited in his attributes. By incarnation, the presence of God is real in and through the life of Jesus here on earth. By his birth as a human being, Jesus manifests the love of God for the world in a real way. The immense love of Jesus for every human person is specially manifested in the Eucharist. In the Eucharist, Jesus presents himself as the nourishment of divine life and as the Purity in essence, purifying the human person from every evil and making him worthy of God. According to St. Vincent, the world is filled with the Divine Presence. It is up to the human person to seek and find the presence of God as present and active in diverse ways in the world. Hence, he advises his followers to launch into the deep and to go deep within themselves to seek the presence of God. When a person plunges himself into God in this manner, he will find God everywhere. St. Vincent adds that a person will find God as the Infinite Love and Mercy, ever ready to shower his mercy and love upon the one who seeks him. He invites every human person to be the seeker of God, seeking him in every situation, in every event, in every trouble, in every good thing, and in whatever happens in his life. The more one seeks God, the more he will find God; the more he finds God, the more he will find him as Infinite Love and Mercy.
Do I believe that God’s Presence is real and active in the world? Do I open myself in finding God who is present in ever so many ways? Do I seek God in the concrete situation of everyday life? Do I find God as the Infinite Love and Mercy?
You are a hiding place for me, you preserve me from trouble; you have encompassed me with deliverance. (Ps. 32: 7)