In modern-day life, we see that the body gets a lot of attention and care.
We use the life we have to care for the body in all its internal and external functions: daily exercise, deep breathing, fear of disease and death. We could expose an endless list of actions, both for men and for women, that abound in the care and repair of the body.
The strange thing is that, at the same time, the body is poisoned with alcohol, drugs, sleepless nights, and pleasures that wear down its health and, although it is a true contradiction: "I take care of my body and, at the same time, I hurt it". But with these vices and excesses I stain my soul, I weaken it ... However, it is well known that everything is intended for the pleasure of the senses and the cult of the body.
Now, I ask: What is done for the health of the Soul? Do you even know that you have a soul? You forgot it already?
The truth is that, since we ignore it, we have forgotten about it and lost the light of its existence.
God creates a soul for each body, and the soul vivifies, gives spirit to that body. Without the soul, the body would not have life. Thanks to the soul, man can think, know, choose, love... and yet we have forgotten the motor of our life and, I ask: "What is the soul?".
The soul is a substance created by God, whose qualities are: simplicity, spirituality, freedom and immortality. And it needs the body to know what exists and happens on the outside, and as a spiritual laboratory, it transforms and elevates in its interior what is transmitted to it. And, later, it expresses it to the outside, in multiple manifestations.
But the soul needs its food. And, what is the food of the soul? The knowledge of God, the study of good works, attendance at Holy Mass, prayer. But at its core foundation, the Sanctifying Grace through the Sacraments. Even the knowledge of truth through philosophy, science and true art. Much must be given to the soul and this will be for the benefit of the whole human being.
Man or woman: move your body, with the life that the soul transmits to you, and reach the confessional; confess your sins and, thus anointed your soul by the grace, you will feel the new life, the life of God, which is the supernatural life, which can lead human beings to unsuspected heights that satisfy, something that cannot be provided by matter, nor the pleasure of the senses.
The soul and the body are two different substances, but together they make the substantial union, forming a single rational and volitional being.
Take care harmoniously of your body and your soul: "My soul for the body and my body for the soul", making them a single identity, giving only glory to God and therefore achieving happiness; since for this we are born.
Sr. Clotilde García Espejel, E.D.
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