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Finding God,
Being Found by God
Document #: TX004827
God Desires
God constantly calls us to relationship with him.
We are invited into communion with God in order to
experience the grace of his saving love.
Leigh Prather/[Link]
Finding God or Being Found by God?
We dont find God, rather we
find God finding us.
Fr. Larry Gillick, SJ
Quotation is from a free, downloadable audio retreat at [Link]/CollaborativeMinistry/AudioRetreat/[Link].
1. What does this quotation mean?
2. How does God find us?
God Reveals Himself to Us
Search for Happiness
& Meaning
Revelation (from Latin)
to unveil or disclose
The Bible
Love
Creation
Thought & Reason
God Reveals Himself to Us
1. How have you experienced God?
Briefly describe.
2. Are any of these means of Revelation
unfamiliar to you?
3. Why do you think these are
unfamiliar to you?
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Encountering God in the
Search for Happiness and Meaning
Songs, art, movies, literature, and poetry often show us that
there is more to life than what we experience through the five
senses.
God is our beginning and our destiny.
Thus happiness is found only in a life fully committed to God.
How do you find
God finding you?
Encountering God in the Bible
The Holy Spirit inspired the
Bibles human authors to write
what God wanted to reveal for
our salvation.
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How do you find
God finding you?
Encountering God through Love
Saint Augustine of Hippo (354430) proposed the following
four objects that we should love:
Love of God above all created things.
Love of our neighbor as inseparable from love of God.
Love of self as knowledge that God is imprinted on our
hearts.
Love of our body as one of Gods masterpieces.
How do you find
God finding you?
Encountering God in Creation
How can someone not believe in God when he or
she sees this or hears that or looks here?
Church Fathers saw God through natural revelation
with humanity as the summit.
According to Saint Augustine,
nothing created by God
is insignificant, not even
the tiniest insect.
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Encountering God through
Thought and Reason
During the Middle Ages, new ways of
proving the existence of God emerged.
Great thinkers held that humans could
use their minds and logically develop
arguments to attain truth and certainty
about God.
Monika Wisniewska/[Link]
How do you find
God finding you?
Saint Thomas Aquinass
Five Proofs for the Existence of God
First Mover everything moves in
the universe; something started the
motion. The First Mover is God.
Causality everything is caused by
something else, but there must be
an Ultimate or First Cause. This First
Cause is God.
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Saint Thomas Aquinas (12251274)
Saint Thomas Aquinass Five Proofs for the Existence of God
(contd.)
Contingency Humans cannot exist without a
Necessary Being who creates all but is not created. This
Necessary Being is God.
Perfection We know perfection, because there is one
all-perfect being: God. All-perfect God sets the infinite
standards for wisdom and truth.
Intelligent Being There is a remarkable order to all of
creation. Because of this order, an intelligent designer
must be behind the universe. This Designer is God.
With which of these do
you most identify?
Courtesy of the
University of Texas Libraries, The University of Texas at Austin
Two Great Thinkers on Natural Revelation
Cardinal John
Henry Newman
(18011890)
Karl Rahner, SJ
(19041984)
Public Domain
Convergence of Probabilities:
Many hints point to the
existence of God. When
combined, they produce a
powerful argument for God.
Anytime humans experience
limitations in knowledge, freedom, or
perfection, there is an awareness of
God as Absolute Mystery.
With which of these do
you most identify?
Jesus Christ Is Gods Perfect Revelation
Because God wants a deep
relationship with us, the Word
became flesh in the person of
Jesus the Christ.
Through Jesus Christ, God has
provided the definitive,
superabundant answer to the
questions that man asks himself
about the meaning and purpose
of his life (CCC, 68).
Incarnation: (from Latin)
to become flesh
From what you know
about Jesus, what do
you know about God?
God Reveals Himself to Us
Victorian
Traditions/[Link]
Search for Happiness
& Meaning
The Bible
Love
Creation
Thought & Reason
How has this lesson
changed how you find
God finding you?
Acknowledgment
The quotation on slide 14 is from the English translation of the Catechism of the Catholic
Church for use in the United States of America, second edition (CCC), number 68.
Copyright 1994 by the United States Catholic Conference, [Link] Editrice
Vaticana (LEV). English translation of the Catechism of the Catholic Church: Modifications
from the Editio Typica copyright 1997 by the United States Catholic Conference, Inc.
LEV.