{"id":19684,"date":"2025-03-28T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-03-28T19:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/salesianbulletin.org\/?p=19684"},"modified":"2025-04-29T14:32:28","modified_gmt":"2025-04-29T21:32:28","slug":"steps-toward-god-dios-mi-herencia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/salesianbulletin.org\/es\/2025\/03\/28\/steps-toward-god-dios-mi-herencia\/","title":{"rendered":"Steps Toward God \/ Pasos Hacia Dios"},"content":{"rendered":"

Por Fr. Ed Liptak, SDB<\/em> –<\/p>\n\n\n\n

God has given us three fine gifts that, if we use them, can lead us gently toward Him. The first is Memory<\/strong>. It is a sort of warmup gift we need to get us off any laziness about ourselves and get us climbing toward God. Any one of us can use this method. It demands only that we take some time imagining the good things God has done for us from past to present. I\u2019m afraid we may tend to blame God for bad things. Instead, let us take a step upward and rediscover that God is a God of Goodness.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the first reading today, Joshua had undertaken the awesome task of substituting for Moses. Surely, he remembered the wonders worked by his leader. Moses had led Israel through the Red Sea into freedom. Now, Joshua was to lead Israel through the Jordan River and into the Promised Land. It was not Moses who brought Israel to freedom, but God. Joshua began the defeat of the \u2018nations\u2019 inhabiting the Holy Land, but it was God who gave the victory. Israel would ever remember the mighty God.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

St. Paul, mindful of the old, signals a new era under Christ. By power of his \u2018Intellect<\/strong>\u2019 he sees that \u201cThe old things have passed away; behold, new things have come. And all this is from God.\u201d All this, says Paul, because God has sent Christ at great cost to compensate for our sins. God calls us up this second step, using another of his wonderful gifts, \u2018Intellect.\u2019 Faith is the eye of our soul that helps us see this step toward God. It places our belief in Jesus at the center of our salvation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Believing, we are called to stand firm, strong of Will<\/strong>. By this gift, we master threats against our call to the Kingdom of God, to Eternal Life with God. The Scriptures help our Memory<\/strong> to recall God\u2019s presence in our midst. Intellect<\/strong> helps us to understand and believe. Will<\/strong> helps us to defeat temptation and persevere on the way to God.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Did these gifts help the selfish younger son of today\u2019s Gospel not remain lost in a world of desire and sin? Memory<\/strong> helped him recall his good life with his father. Intellect<\/strong> and a firm Will<\/strong> led him to conclude that he would be pardoned and taken back. No matter our state of life, God responds by welcoming us, too, home to Him. Get started. Keep at it. Climb step by step. God loves us!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cTaste and See the goodness of the Lord.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Pasos Hacia Dios<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Por P. Ed Liptak, SDB<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dios nos ha dado tres dones excelentes que, si los usamos, pueden guiarnos suavemente hacia \u00c9l. El primero es la Memoria<\/strong>. Es una especie de regalo de calentamiento que necesitamos para sacarnos de cualquier pereza sobre nosotros mismos y hacernos subir hacia Dios. Cualquiera de nosotros puede usar este m\u00e9todo. Solo exige que nos tomemos un tiempo para imaginar las cosas buenas que Dios ha hecho por nosotros desde el pasado hasta el presente. Me temo que tendemos a culpar a Dios por las cosas malas. En cambio, demos un paso hacia arriba y redescubramos que Dios es un Dios de Bondad.
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En la primera lectura de hoy, Josu\u00e9 hab\u00eda emprendido la asombrosa tarea de sustituir a Mois\u00e9s. Seguramente recordaba las maravillas obradas por su l\u00edder. Mois\u00e9s hab\u00eda guiado a Israel a trav\u00e9s del Mar Rojo hacia la libertad. Ahora Josu\u00e9 deb\u00eda guiar a Israel a trav\u00e9s del r\u00edo Jord\u00e1n y a la Tierra Prometida. No fue Mois\u00e9s quien llev\u00f3 a Israel a la libertad, sino Dios. Josu\u00e9 comenz\u00f3 la derrota de las “naciones” que habitaban la Tierra Santa, pero fue Dios quien dio la victoria. Israel siempre recordar\u00eda al Dios poderoso.
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San Pablo, atento a lo viejo, se\u00f1ala una nueva era bajo Cristo. Por el poder de su ‘Intelecto<\/strong>‘ ve que “Las cosas viejas han pasado; He aqu\u00ed que han venido cosas nuevas. Y todo esto es de Dios”. Todo esto, dice Pablo, porque Dios ha enviado a Cristo a un gran costo para compensar nuestros pecados. Dios nos llama a este segundo paso, usando otro de sus maravillosos dones, el ‘Intelecto<\/strong>‘. La fe es el ojo de nuestra alma que nos ayuda a ver este paso hacia Dios. Coloca nuestra creencia en Jes\u00fas en el centro de nuestra salvaci\u00f3n.
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Creyendo, estamos llamados a permanecer firmes, fuertes de voluntad<\/strong>. Con este don dominamos las amenazas contra nuestro llamado al Reino de Dios, a la Vida Eterna con Dios. Las Escrituras ayudan a nuestra memoria<\/strong> a recordar la presencia de Dios en medio de nosotros. El intelecto<\/strong> nos ayuda a entender y a creer.\u00a0La voluntad<\/strong> nos ayuda a vencer la tentaci\u00f3n y a perseverar en el camino hacia Dios.
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\u00bfAyudaron estos dones (memorial, intelecto, y fureza de voluntad) al ego\u00edsta joven del Evangelio de hoy, a no mantenerse perdido en un mundo de deseo y pecado? La memoria <\/strong>le ayud\u00f3 a recordar su buena vida con su padre. El intelecto<\/strong> y una firme voluntad<\/strong> lo llevaron a la conclusi\u00f3n de que ser\u00eda perdonado y devuelto. Independientemente de nuestro estado de vida, Dios responde d\u00e1ndonos la bienvenida a \u00c9l. Que se indique. Sigue as\u00ed.\u00a0 Sube pelda\u00f1o a pelda\u00f1o. \u00a1Dios nos ama!
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“Gustad y ved la bondad del Se\u00f1or”.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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By Fr. Ed Liptak, SDB – God has given us three fine gifts that, if we use them, can lead us gently toward Him. The first is Memory. It is a sort of warmup gift we need to get us off any laziness about ourselves and get us climbing toward God. Any one of us can use this method. It demands only that we take … Continuar leyendo Steps Toward God \/ Pasos Hacia Dios<\/span><\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":10336596,"featured_media":12531,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":"","advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":true,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[777629889,2343517,20310044],"tags":[782003455],"class_list":["post-19684","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-fr-ed-liptak","category-gospel-reflection","category-province-news","tag-fr-ed-liptak"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/salesianbulletin.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/intouch-scripture-graphic-feature.jpg?fit=1600%2C510&ssl=1","jetpack_likes_enabled":false,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p59ePG-57u","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/salesianbulletin.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19684","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/salesianbulletin.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/salesianbulletin.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/salesianbulletin.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10336596"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/salesianbulletin.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19684"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/salesianbulletin.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19684\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19765,"href":"https:\/\/salesianbulletin.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19684\/revisions\/19765"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/salesianbulletin.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12531"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/salesianbulletin.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19684"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/salesianbulletin.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19684"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/salesianbulletin.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19684"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}