Christianity is a religion of paradoxes. One is the strange relationship between the natural world that we see and the supernatural world that we do not. The latter is where God resides and is our ultimate home. At the same time, it is ever-present to us: it sustains and penetrates the natural order while enveloping us in multiple ways.
God is present in us through sacramental grace and before us in the Eucharist. He is also present in a different way in other people whom we encounter, an astonishing fact Jesus taught plainly: charitable acts transcend both worlds. “Truly, I say to you, as you did it to one of the least of these my brethren, you did it to me.” (Matthew 25:41)
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