Fulton Sheen: The Humiliation of God Becoming Man

🌟 Bishop Fulton J. Sheen eloquently reflects on the profound humility of God becoming man. Imagine placing your mind, soul, and spirit into the body of a dog. The first humiliation would be living with the limitations of that canine form, guided by instinct instead of intellect, and communicating through barks instead of words. The second humiliation would be spending your life among dogs, despite knowing you are far superior, only to be rejected and torn apart by them. Sheen powerfully illustrates how this analogy pales in comparison to the divine humility of God taking on human form, experiencing human pain, and offering Himself for our salvation. This thought-provoking sermon invites us to contemplate the incredible sacrifice and love of God. #FultonSheen #Incarnation #DivineHumility #GodBecomingMan #CatholicFaith

[jamesmccloud]

Never thought of it that way. What humility for God himself to become like us

[catholiclife]

Wow hes completely right. Saint Fulton Sheen you are led by wisdom of the Lord

[petersconrad]

God Is Love. Believe and trust in Him. Thank you for your mercy and love Amen 🙏

[christianmwabukusi]

Awesome! Awesome! Awesomely Put- How Humbly is Our God- How can we measure this Love! Holy Lord forgive me, wretched sinful man

[alllovingcowherdboy]

God is both within each and every living being, and without also ...separate ...as He can do all things without difficulty

[arturoalvarez]

We need more Fulton Sheens nowadays to bring Church back to the truth proclaim by our Lor.

[alessandrabielli]

Quanto abbiamo bisogno di uomini di Dio così oggi... ❤🙏

[julietataylor]

My mother used to say that we are lucky that we are in higher form of animals know how to think better than animals but we still have to respect all living things because we all created by God to have rights to live in this earth 🌍 that he created

[andreawill]

much does God love us, all we have to do is look to The Cross 😭❤

[LaVidaLocaHomie]

God with the consciousness of a dog is a dog. A dog withe the consciousness of God is God.

[tedeibeakawaii]

And then ontop of that, he became food and drink for us! Oh, how He loves us...

[TMKK-jefs]

Holly Bischof Fulton Sheen please pray for us and us Bischofs.😭🙏🇩🇪🕊️🙏‼️ Christus vincit. Ave Maria 🛐

[acemccool]

Great perspective. I will remember this analogy.

[successjesus]

Before hearing the end, I was so infuriated and felt pain and shame at the end. Lord Jesus I'm sorry for all the times I've let you down.😢.

[leoniea]

This is deep . Why make such a comparison . Why indeed .

[virgorising]

The soul is worth more than all the galaxies, all the universe and a million universes.

[aproodigalson]

Im so thanful that i can hear this even though he's long gone. He was a terrfiic person

[francismcglynn]

"Where power resides only in men, there is no longer a God. Reflections of this kind clearly reveal something fundamental about the problem of man’s knowledge of God. It becomes apparent that knowledge of God is ultimately not a question of pure theory, but primarily a question as to one’s own way of life; it depends on the relationship that men have established between themselves and the world, between themselves and their own lives."
[Joseph Ratzinger, Co-Workers of the Truth: Meditations for Every Day of the Year, ed. Irene Grassl, trans. Mary Frances McCarthy and Lothar Krauth (San Francisco: Ignatius Press, 1992), 246.]

[alllovingcowherdboy]

When the soul is reborn it forgets it's previous life in a short time and it's consciousness becomes covered ...a human body is very rare and when misused by exploiting others and showing no mercy to man or beast it must take birth in a body in order to reap what it previously sowed

[careyhamm]

That is such a beautiful profound way of explaining what happened in the incarnation....good for meditation