So many concerns for the people of Ukraine, including the brave soldiers and civilians fighting for the freedom of their country. I pray also for the Russian soldiers who are forced by brainwashed upbringing, as well as those conscripted, into fighting to kill others in another country, mercilessly. I ask His Real Presence to please stop Vladimir Putin and those around him, for their horrific behaviors and decisions of invading another country.
It's Lent, and my body now also has besides the sinus infection that continues at end of fourth week, with sawdust having scratched my left eye. I need prayers to cope with the pain of what the ophthalmologist says are scratches and a contusion. I realize that His Real Presence allows my injured eye to be a reminder that I am to be seeing all, at least for now, with inner eye.
While I'm unable to get a second zpack to finish pushing out the sinus infection, I found when I went to pharmacy to get the ointment and antibiotic drops for the eye, that the young GP had at least sent a prescription for some nasal spray. I have two OTC sprays I've been using, but I'll give this hopefully stronger type a try. I've called the ophthalmologist office to find out what they recommend for the pain of left eye. When there, the doctor had put numbing drops in the eye, but that wore off after a couple hours. Boo hoo hoo. Actually, praise God as have more to offer as pain prayer for many intentions, particularly the raging war going on in Ukraine. God please convert Putin's soul, and other souls, as well.
I've written to Fr. V. asking what he thinks of my thoughts on the church as passageway, the temporal on to the stairway to heaven, on to heaven eternally. It does seem that my temporal body is not needed by God to be in the temporal Church, and at this phase of spiritual progression, my mind, heart, and soul are fed by His Real Presence, my sins forgiven by His Real Presence, my all and everything led and directed and guided along is of His Real Presence in His Mystical Church.
This means nothing against the temporal Church other than the temporal is always passing away--our bodies and structures, and temporal aspects of our growth and learning as we are progressed along the passageways, the paths, and through this life and the temporal Church of this life. There is nothing negative about it from my view and understanding, also which has progressed, but rather a simple transition of passing through one portal and onto another passageway shown me to be the stairway to heaven.
It is so clear to me, so vivid, so natural, so obvious, so real and so His Real Presence, this progression. He knew I had no bodily purpose or otherwise in the temporal Church; He fulfills all that my soul, mind, heart, and body need in His Mystical Church, directly, mystically. I had learned and given all that God needed of me in passageway of the temporal Church. I am not perfected by any means; but the progression is now on the stairway to heaven--which means it is not heaven, but from what I was shown, a stairway that extends as if eternally, forever.
God bless His Real Presence in us! Love in His Love!
