PIo's Proverb 153: PEACE: What does it really mean?

Peace: What does it really mean. Nationally and Internationally, we may think it means cessation of war. But we do not have an open declaration of war with China; but nonetheless we are at cold war with China because China wants to be the greatest world power and sees the US as an abstacle to that Chinese Empire.

Peace for some means being at balance with nature, with collective minds and mutual sociological desires. But peace means much more than this harmony.

Peace is a Fruit of the Holy Spirit. What does that mean?  It cannot be explained adequately by philosophy, psychology or even theology - although Thomas Aquinas surely has defined it well.

But the PEACE as the Fruit of the Holy Spirit is an EXPERIENCE  - mystical in nature and being.

Actually this Peace is "ipso facto" and intrinsically an emotional and spiritual communication from God who has total access to our souls. It is "infused contemplation" - a sharing in the Divine Life of Peace.

What does it feel like or experience like?

Please allow me to try to explain my own personal experience of God's Peace in my soul:

1) I was just writing in my bed and doing my journal to collect my thoughts to thank God for the surprises in the day - all that had come Him. As I was doing this, a profound soul-filled Peace permeated my whole being.

2) I felt all was finished and completed in my life. I had nothing yet to achieve...or even do...all was done.

3) This was an all totally new event in my soul and was not experienced in the same way ever before.

4) This Peace was a sharing in God's Peace within my own limited way in space and time.

5) The feeling of Peace was joyful and fulfilling and most calming in every way: a healing of the soul by the Holy Spirit.

6) This experience was sudden - totally unexpected and not shakeable: extremely pleasant.

7) This gift is totally gratutious, unmerited, and initiated by God who is drawing the soul closer to Himself.

8) This grace lasted about ten minutes - a time of bliss in soul and body. I was very grateful to God for this intimate and loving time with Him. There is an element of deep security: of being saved eternally.

9) For the first time I understood what "Rest in Peace" really means: Resting in Peace can begin here on earth; and in heaven, this Peace will be a resting for all eternity in God's Peace - as much as He can pour into our souls. For God is a God of Peace....and wishes us to do what Jesus said: "Remain in My Peace."


P-e-a-c-e and love,

Pio xo