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Text Box: But most important of all is this: Jesus provides redemptive salvation to those who accept and follow Him and His teachings because His sacrifice is pleasing to God. But God accepts this perfect sacrifice only by virtue of the Divine Charity - the Agape Love - which inspires (yes, inspireS, not inspireD) it. Ref: Phili 2:5-11; The Passion according to Saint Matthew +

Text Box: It is very difficult to explain deification of the human. God is God and no human will ever be God yet each of us has the potential to be deified. Yet God is the Deity. Christ is the Deity, is God, and also became incarnate, fully human, being both God and Man in one Person. He is unique, as is God, the Blessed Trinity. But humans are not unique. A very poor analogy is, deification is like unto a person who becomes a plumber, but since there already is a permanent Master Plumber that plumber will never be the Master Plumber but that person is a plumber non-the-less. A poor analogy, but it serves the purpose of leading thought in a generally correct direction. The most accurate analogy is that provided by Our Saviour Himself. He is the vine and we are the branches. Yet He also, being the vine, is also the branches. It is not that we, as branches, are grafted on to Christ, the root stock, or Christ, the root stock and vine. No, it is that through the Incarnation each human is able to re-establish his or her birth, his or her conception, from a stand alone plant seeking what nourishment it is able to obtain, to being sprouted from the vine as a branch through Sacramental Baptism to accept the life which flows from the vine and to grow and flourish in accordance with that nourishment and yield good fruit. But each also has the ability to reject that nourishment and wither from the vine - or to be pruned from the vine if one refuses to yield good fruit. Change the analogy from a vine to a person. Think of Christ in His human nature so you are able to somewhat visualize. Intellectually add yourself as being immersed in Christ yet remaining totally yourself while Christ remains totally Himself yet with you immersed in Him. One may or may not be able to approach imagining this, but one is able to intellectually approach this. We do not actually put on Christ and button ourselves up within Him, yet we actually do just that. With that in mind, it is more readily comprehended that each human

Text Box: member of the Mystical Body of Christ fully participates in the Life, Passion, Death, and Resurrection of Our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ God. Even though in the running of time, and in history, these events took place long before anyone alive today was born, in the Mystical Body of Christ there is no time. Therefore, each member of the Mystical Body of Christ participates in His Life, Passion, Death, and Resurrection. The more closely attuned one is to Christ - the more one becomes holy, the more one acquires of the Holy Spirit - the more fully one participates in Christ’s Life, Passion, Death, and Resurrection. The Blessed Ever Virgin Mary was in total harmony with God even at the instant of her conception making her a member of the Mystical Body of Christ from the beginning of her existence and continuing all throughout eternity. This is so even though in the running of time the Mystical Body of Christ could be considered as not yet having been brought into existence since Christ had not yet become Incarnate; yet in the eternal now it existed. Though in the running of time the Mystical Body of Christ began with the Incarnation, it exists in the Eternal Now. Therefore, in the Eternal Now, we who in the running of time will eventually become full members of the Mystical Body of Christ, fully participate, while in the running of time we attain and increase, hopefully, in holiness - while in the running of time we ever increasingly operate divinely; while in the running of time we ever increasingly think and act in accordance with the Divine Virtue of Faith. This really is not complicated. It is totally beyond our ability to comprehend or understand, yet, since God has revealed it to us, it is easily knowable. And it really is Divinely simple. Ref: 1 John 5:4-10; John 20:19-31 +

Text Box: THE SALVATION OF EACH INDIVIDUAL IS ACCOMPLISHED IN THE UNION OF EACH INDIVIDUAL IN THE MYSTICAL BODY OF CHRIST whereby each individual fully participates in the life, passion, death, and resurrection of Christ attaining the deification available to a creature. It is sufficient for us to know that Christ made salvation available to us and that we may accept it or reject it through either acting Divinely or failure so-to-do. But the reality is much deeper. The greater our comprehension and understanding of that reality the greater our ability to persevere in doing that which is necessary for us to operate Divinely. In the Incarnation, the conception of Jesus Christ God as human, all of humankind and every human being becomes open to being deified. In the life, Passion, death, and Resurrection of the same Jesus Christ, all of humankind and every human being, not only has atonement for their sins made, but also in His own overcoming evil, sin, and the effects of evil and of sin, Christ has made the same available to every human being. Deification is made available to or, more accurately, attainable by, every human being.

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