Born to so little time My topic today I suggested a question I was asked: "I wonder what happens to the soul of a child who died after birth? And it adds: "He did not mind" (?)
On this day Saints, can you believe it is part of the huge crowd of saints who praise God forever? Not having more than others, to answer, I might keep quiet. What might be wiser! But I prefer to say something because it's an opportunity to emphasize a divine dimension important: it's free. This young child is often said to be an "angel" has just opened this free gift of eternal life. As we. But for us adults, there are so many other things involved that this is free in doubt. We must, we believe, deserve ... I can not come before God with empty hands, etc., etc. ... Many reasonable arguments!
God does not enter his kingdom and participate in his divine life because we had, after several decades in this world, a good life. "So many parables in the Gospel we prove, among other that of the prodigal son, and the example of the good thief on the cross. God finds his joy to share with us his divine life because he loves us and created us for that. We are made for a feast of eternal relations mutuals. You see it already in this world how we are trying to achieve this ideal. With varying degrees of success! Of course, for this to become reality, there are probably many things
transform us. There should already be applied in this life to make it possible. But the child who dies shortly after birth may not have to suffer this kind of purification.
I put this in
parallel with what the singer said Jean-Louis Aubert
: "Life is a long 'I love you, we love to write yourself. The young child who is not allowed the time to write a 'Long' I love you ', "seems a victim of injustice. He has not had time to prove his love. But is it really necessary to prove this?
As for saying that he "did not mind, I am in disagreement. The toddler, although not the age of reason and can not distinguish right from wrong, does have in him a light area where the eye of God rests on him with much love as any other creature adult. That is the essential part of his child's soul, which is his mind. Here in this secret place, (and that makes all our dignity) established a personal relationship with its creator. Without it, he could not even survive. Indeed, even before birth, this relationship existed in some mysterious way. Death can not make it disappear.
theologians in the past have devised a special place for children who died young (and baptism). They called limbo. In my opinion, there is no need to use it to find a place to those whom God has withdrawn life in this world earlier than others. We do not have too much to worry about what we think of special cases. God has more than one trick up its sleeve.
Let him trust !
