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How to verify the virtue of religion in our acts of adoration: offer a sacrifice!

Oktober, 16nd 2023 – While the war for reality is raging around us, father Elias Leyds C.S.J. started a couple of weeks ago in FilioQue in English, a collection of short reflections on the topic of ‘that religious fight‘. 

The last 4 delveries he talked about the steps for real adoration to distinguish a real religious life from a life without real meaning. We have seen as step 1, to go to a sacred place, for a retreat alone with God. And when we are there we take step 2: we adore, to recognize that we don’t know Him really. We make ourself small, we take the greatest act of humility. We show physically with our body how small we are compared to this omni present god. So with obedience you realize taht you cannot know the essence of God, what he is, but you demonstrate that you understand that he is. In addition you confess you don’t know whom he is. He is who he is in eternity.

So you complete your visit to the sacred place with the third step: you sacrifice, you offer saomething that is dear to you. You show that you want to know who God is. You want to see his face, so you make a gesture, you make an sign to ‘call’ you. A synbolic gesture, because everything you got was received from God. Is is a gesture wit a meaning, which makes your life worth living.

so by adoring regularly we recognize the absolute supremavy of god but we also appreciate the fact that we depend on Him, He created us, and we acknowledge God. This is the beginning of a new, ultimately meaningful life. 

We can therefor also say, real adoration is part of the search for meaning.

Background: Father Elias is again and again using realism to help us understand why religion or being religious, one of the virtues of life, is what we need, to give meaning and to reach our goals, our purpose in life. So the question remains: what does it take to live the virtue of religion? Father Elias gave us a good direction in how to test or qualify our deeds of adoration.

There are five 5 ‘steps of verification’ to test and purify our religious life, in the moments of adoration. It gives us a guide towards a real authentic religious life

1. Movement – go to a special place, a sacred place specially prepared for the Lord

2. Adoration – really adore the One who is, and who always shall be

3. Offer a sacrifice

4. Mediation – Reflect on the good things revceived and / or the good people you have met which you want to transmit to others..

5. Decide on an action, how to respond to God to answer his call  

Do you want to watch the complete series of the ‘War for reality‘ so far? Click here.   

If you want to hear some more (by Father Elias) about the ‘meaning of reality‘ Click here, or the feeling of emptiness, click here. ? 

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