Waching daily Dec 31 2017

ANUSHKA SHARMA AND VIRAT KOHLI IN SOUTH AFRICA

For more infomation >> ANUSHKA SHARMA, SEE WHAT IS SHY TRYING TO DO IN SOUTH AFRICA WITH VIRAT KOHLI - Duration: 1:28.

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January is 'Restaurant Month' in San Luis Obispo County - Duration: 0:43.

For more infomation >> January is 'Restaurant Month' in San Luis Obispo County - Duration: 0:43.

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Dave's Impressions - The End is Nigh - Duration: 2:37.

For more infomation >> Dave's Impressions - The End is Nigh - Duration: 2:37.

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Fr Legge #4: How is God present in the world? In the soul? (I, 8) - Duration: 5:30.

How is God present in the world? In the soul? (I, 8)

How God is present in the world and how he is present in the soul is a fascinating question,

not only theologically, but also for our spiritual lives.

It is a very profound subject to meditate on.

And Aquinas, I think, does a marvelous job at laying out the ways to think about God's presence in the world, and in us, dwelling in us.

He talks about this in the Prima Pars of the Summa theologiae in question eight, article three.

And there he says that God is present in the world in three classical ways--

and, in fact, this is not unique to Aquinas:

he is picking up a long theological tradition--

but it is by his essence, his presence and his power.

That is the way God is present in the whole world, in all of creation.

And then there is a special way that we will talk about with respect to the soul in just a minute.

But he is present to the world by his essence: what does that mean?

God's essence is to be, to exist.

God is being.

God is "ipsum esse subsistens," Aquinas says, being itself subsisting.

He is.

Everything else is only existing relative to God.

So, God is present in the world as what is causing everything to be.

If you just pause and think about that for a moment, how profound, how deep that goes.

Everything depends at every moment on God sustaining it in being.

So, everything, every place, every being depends on God.

God is constantly present to it, holding it in being, as it were.

That is the first way that God is present in creation.

The second way: by his presence. Well, that sounds sort of redundant: what does that mean?

God is everywhere by his presence.

He is present to things by his presence.

Aquinas means by that, that he is present to things, as it were, gazing on everything.

Everything is open to the eye of God.

And this is not a gaze that is a harsh, severe gaze, not the gaze of a judge, who is looking to see what you are doing wrong;

it is the gaze of our loving Father,

God who is perfectly good,

and who has created all things to share in his goodness,

who apportions good things to all things,

and he looks at them and rejoices in them, in a certain sense, as good.

That is why he has created them: to be good.

He sees that they are good, as we read in Genesis.

So, for the spiritual life, imagine this: simply putting yourself in the presence of God, knowing that God is supporting me in being right now.

And God sees me.

He sees me at every moment of my life, not looking at me first of all as a judge, looking at me with love.

Okay, the third way that God is present to creation:

he is present by his power.

Aquinas means by that, that God has a kind of mastery over all things that exist.

He not only sustains them in being, he not only sees what is happening in creation,

but he can do whatever he will, at every moment, in creation.

So he is present everywhere by his power to affect the world,

which means we can always turn to God for help.

Now, there is a special way that God is present in the rational creature, in the human soul.

And this is especially beautiful and especially important for our spiritual lives.

Aquinas says, in the same article that I have been referring to, that God is present in a special way, when we know and love God.

So, as we come to know God, we share in how God knows himself.

We become more like God in that way.

And as we love God, we come to love God a bit like God loves himself.

We become assimilated to God in this knowing and loving.

And then, God is present in us most perfectly.

We are, as it were, drawn into God as we know and love him.

That is something that non-rational creatures are not capable of doing,

not capable of sharing in the very life of God which is to know and love himself.

We can do that.

And the more we do that, the more we are in God's presence, the more we are drawn into him.

And in fact that is our ultimate beatitude, our ultimate destiny.

The life of heaven is to see God perfectly and to know him absolutely perfectly with a kind of infinite, perfect love, insofar as a human creature is capable of that.

That is what we will be able to do in heaven,

and that is to share the life of God as perfectly as we can.

For more infomation >> Fr Legge #4: How is God present in the world? In the soul? (I, 8) - Duration: 5:30.

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That Rhian Brewster issued a wake-up call is both worrying and inspiring Daniel Taylor - Duration: 5:21.

That Rhian Brewster issued a wake-up call is both worrying and inspiring Daniel Taylor

 Liverpool's young striker Rhian Brewster, who has yet to make his first-team debut, has revealed the full extent of racial abuse he says he has been subjected to.

It isn't easy knowing whether the people occupying football's ivory towers have actually noted what Rhian Brewster has had to say in the past few days.

Unless I have missed it, the executives at Uefa and Fifa have not uttered a word in response and, frankly, that is no surprise whatsoever.

Anyone calling Uefa since 22 December would get a cheery answerphone message saying its offices are closed and the lights are out until 4 January. Fifa, meanwhile, is on its own extended Christmas break.

"Hope you are not in a hurry," one of its press aides told me.

It can wait if the president of either organisation is willing to be interviewed about a system that feels so inadequate it has been left to a boy of 17 to try to jolt the relevant people into action.

Even better, perhaps, if Aleksander Ceferin, Gianni Infantino or any of their colleagues want to contact Brewster the old-fashioned way and hear for themselves why someone of his age has felt compelled to speak out.

Somehow, though, I doubt it and it is difficult to have too much faith bearing in mind what we already know about these organisations and the impression sometimes that the only colour they really care about is that of a £50 banknote.

Brewster did not sound overly optimistic either when he chronicled, in uncensored form, the seven different incidents, including five in the past seven months and one in the Under-17 World Cup final, when he says he has been racially abused or heard a team‑mate suffering the same.

He would like to think the voice of a 17-year-old might be heard and, though he is absolutely not alone, with his club, family and Kick it Out all behind him, let's hope the Football Association is not merely playing to the gallery and intends to stick by its promise to "push for appropriate responses from the relevant authorities".

Brewster is still at an age when, for most of us, the biggest worry in life is mastering the three-point turn.

It is not fair to expect him to take on the authorities single-handedly, nor was that ever his intention, and this is the ideal time, surely, for the FA to start making amends, if possible, for the pig's ear it made of the Eni Aluko affair.

Anything else would be a missed opportunity because, as Jürgen Klopp points out, it should be a wake-up call for the entire sport if it has reached the point where one of Liverpool's academy boys – a child of the 21st century, no less, born in the year that Steven Gerrard made his England debut – is willing to take the lead, before he has made his professional debut, and without any real experience of the industry's politics.

It is not an exact science, admittedly, but certainly in the era of social media it is rare to see an interview with any footballer, even one of the category-A superstars, go viral so quickly.

Going forward, I get the impression Brewster wants to be thought of as a prolific scorer of goals rather than someone who decided that, no, he wasn't going to stay quiet any longer.

For the time being, however, it has clearly struck a nerve that someone his age has had the force of personality to take a stand and say enough's enough – and, for that alone, he deserves all the praise that is coming his way.