virtue of naturalness
The supernatural virtue of naturalness. It's a contradiction, how natural can be supernatural. Naturalness is seeing commonplace event as part of God's hand and plan. We need to have the virtue of naturalness, that in ordinary things, in our relationships with our wife, our fiancée, our friends, our work and our activities encompass God's presence in them. It's recognising God's presence in the naturalness of life, and being fully active in the naturalness of life.
It's the taste of salt in salt, the brightness of a light. Salt has to be seasoned, if not it's useless. Your inner baptismal light need to shine, if not, it's useless.
Not about "being religious", but about being natural, not in the ostentatiousness but in the ordinariness.
Christian ordinariness is a mustard seed, that the supernatural life grows within us, that put forth roots, branches, leaves, flowers and finally fruits. The naturalness of the supernatural.
Naturalness is often confused as being easy. But ordinary life, lived to fullness of charity demands grace and faithfulness to respond to the demands of everyday life.
Naturalness is not secrecy. It's the turning of ordinary circumstances of life into occasions of serving and loving God and others. Naturalness is to be a missionary, with a mission, and not call yourself a missionary. It isn't cowardice, not is it fear of human respect, not
This is the fundamental characteristic of Opus Dei.
Christianity naturalness, loving God in the ordinariness of life, and turning ordinary circumstances to love God.
To know that God the father is interested in every single small aspect of my ordinary life.
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