While "La Fettuccia" is the "Great Lesson" for the Level 2 (E1) children, "The Plan of God" provides the springboard for the Level 3 (E2) children. In this meditation we focus in on the Plan God has for mankind, beginning, instead of at creation, at the creation of humanity. In the Plan of God, the horizontal bridges which link us to peoples from long ago, and the gratitude we can have for them, even without knowing their names, becomes clear. They discovered fire and invented the wheel, they figured out how to plant gardens and domesticate animals, developing shelter and transportation in order to meet their needs. We have learned so much from them! Great civilizations in the past like the Egyptians, Babylonians, Phoenicians, Incas, Chinese, and many more have also passed on to us inventions, discoveries, and ideals that have shaped us today. All of these peoples are part of God's Plan and they have all been part of establishing horizontal bridges which link us to each other throughout time and across the world. But God also desired vertical bridges which would link us more closely to Him. These He established first through Abraham, the father of the People of God. The Hebrew people have given to the world the gift of knowledge of the One true God. It is from the Jewish people that Jesus Christ, True God and True Man, is born. Through His death and resurrection He has chosen to remain with us through the Sacraments. The Christian people have received many gifts from the Jewish people including believe in One God, the Old Testament Scriptures, and many worship practices. Thus we are linked with them in this moment and also linked with God, in a most particular way, through Jesus and the Church He established which provides us with the Sacraments which give us all that we need to meet our spiritual needs. But what is the ultimate Plan of God? Parousia, the day when God "will be all in all" and there will be "Cosmic Communion," the union of all of creation with one another and with God. We await this day together, preparing for it through how we live this very day in His Kingdom.
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Carolyn Kohlhaas
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