We all have a desire to preserve our temporal life, which passes with the days, the years, work, joys, sorrows, and suffering. But how little we concern ourselves with eternal life! And yet, this is the only life that is truly decisive and that lasts forever.
When God created human beings, he destined them for eternal life by sharing in his divine life. Hence, God created man in the image of himself, in the image of God he created him, male and female he created them (Gn 1:27), and then went on to explain that The Lord God fashioned man of dust from the soil. Then he breathed into his nostrils a breath of life, and thus man became a living being (Gn 2:7). We see here that the human body was taken from the dust of the earth, but human beings received life itself from the very Being of God, from the creative breath of his lips. Hence, our soul is a spiritual being which participates in the life of God and is immortal. When the body becomes totally incapable of co-operating with the action of the soul, the soul leaves it and flies to its centre of attraction, which is God.
But our participation in eternal life must be decided between two very different realities: heaven or hell.
In the call to devotion to the Immaculate Heart of Mary, we saw how there are two distinct progenies which are at loggerheads with each other: the progeny of Satan, which leads people into the way of sin, and the progeny of the Immaculate Heart of Mary who, as the Mother of the children of God, leads them in the way of truth, justice and love, since God is Love, and all his children are known by the way they love. And.. .the children of God climb by the way of love to the possession of eternal happiness in the Kingdom of God.
Servant of God Sister Lucia of Fatima, OC.D.
Sister Lucia (12005) was a Carmelite nun and the oldest of the three children to whom Our Lady ofFatima appeared in 1917,