[Deacon Ed Sheffer ...] a thousand times thank you for visiting and bringing me the precious Body, Blood, Soul, and Divinity of Jesus to me. There are no words that express how much it means to be able to be sacramentally united to Christ in the Eucharist. I pray every day God’s abundant blessing and grace may be upon you for how you help me and the impact you have had on my life. Thank you also for the reality check on being a man of peace. I have many voices coming at me advocating the necessity to use violence to protect myself, and it is all too easy to be sucked into the prevailing mentality … I also had a realization about how our sins could hurt an omnipotent God. … I understand clearly how our sins hurt Christ in his Passion. The realization I had is that because God exists outside of time; and past, present, and future are all present to Him at once, then Jesus’ sacrifice is always before Him, hence with every sin I commit in my present, in God the Fathers now, they are imputed to Christ. So, basically, every sin I commit now, my sins are being laid upon Christ in His crucifixion. This was a powerful realization for me.
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