June 18, 2021 (LifeSiteNews) — St. Augustine’s famous book, The City of God, identifies the “heavenly kingdom” not as a physical place, but as a way of living in accordance with the Will of God.
The great Fifth-Century philosopher and Doctor of the Church describes certain behaviors and attitudes which we must adopt in order to be included in the kingdom. And he notes that each of us is called upon to decide whether we will make those behaviors and attitudes part of our lives.
In other words, we must choose which city we wish to live in: the City of God (the heavenly kingdom), or the City of Man (the earthly realm).
It’s been my experience that this isn’t a decision we make once for all time. Rather, it’s a process that repeats itself every day of our lives. We choose our city each time we make a moral judgment, deciding to follow what we know is the correct path, or else to cut some ethical corner.
Most of these decisions are about small matters. And while the cumulative effect of such choices determines our moral destiny, we don’t see the immediate results of each judgment — not usually,
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