Other Experiences of an English Language Teacher

  We have already said that man can reach to know God with his own reason and mind, okay. But God has wished to reveal to man, his divine inside but also some things man can reach to know through his reason and mind. God is so good.  For example, God has revealed he is three Persons but anyway only one God. Is it clear? Three Persons, Father, Son and Holy Spirit, yet only one God. Well, that’s something you cannot understand nor comprehend totally, for it’s a mystery.  And Jesus Christ, the Son incarnated, revealed there are those three Persons in God. As I said before, God is so father and loving and good that he has revealed some things – moral and doctrinal – man can achieve to learn through his only mind – also because man is so fallible at getting to know such things.  And we get to learn all those things by the Bible, Tradition and our mother the Church teaching over the centuries.  I live in Granada, Spain, you know, the Alhambra palace and all that – ama...

  He was a great man, a great saint, Blessed John Paul I, the antecessor to also great Saint John Paul II.  The first one told the next anecdote when he already was Pope. Precisely on September 6, 1979. He told that when he was the bishop of Venice he used to assist some houses for the elderly. Once he encountered an old lady in one of these houses. And he asked her how she was, how she felt, how the heating worked, how the meals were … Everything’s okay, she was saying, but eventually he asked if she was content and happy. Then she nearly burst to cry. What’s the matter? He asked the old lady. Well, she said, my daughter-in-law, my son … they just don’t come to visit me, and also I’d like to see my grandchildren!  Well, you know, the family. It’s so great a thing, and how much we miss them when perhaps they’re far away, or you just don’t have a family.  The family is one of the greatest things God has created, and we cannot pass without it.  Even more, at the b...