God Reveals Himself

"How would God reveal himself, say, through somebody else?"

Bishop Steinbock spoke tenderly, "I would say the main way I came to know God’s love is through people loving me. And the way I came to know of God’s forgiveness is through people forgiving me. And so, in turn, through my forgiving other people, I think those other people will know God’s forgiveness, too. We experience the Lord through people in our lives."

"Is it your belief, then, that people of all the various faiths are touched by the Holy Spirit in some way?"

"The Second Vatican Council of the church was very strong in the spirit that God would reveal himself in many, many different ways in this world. God isn’t limited by the structure of the church which we believe he founded himself; but God doesn’t limit himself to the structure of the church," the Bishop explained.

As I later wrote this chapter, I wondered why the whole world wasn’t dancing in joy about the great love expressed in Vatican II.

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