I BOW TO YOU
Meditation course: You will best meditate on your knees. But standing or sitting is good too. Relax, breathe calmly, look up and then… bow slightly and in that attitude let your heart say what it wants. Then get up and then lean all the way to the floor again. Stay like that for a while and tell Jesus that he is precious to you and that you do not want to worship anyone but Him. Listen to your heart and the Spirit within you. Stand up before the living God again. It is not only worship that matters, but God you worship. And that presence of God begins to change you tremendously. After fifteen minutes, pray „The Lord’s Prayer“ and finish the meditation.
God is an absolute being. Everything starts and ends in him. No one can escape his control and his will. To worship God therefore means to acknowledge what he is – that God is the absolute Lord of creation and of our lives. But God is our Father. That is why we do not worship him slavishly, like those who are defeated. On the contrary, we worship him in elation. In admiration because he is incomprehensible, that he is simply Love, not just the one who loves. Because he is simply goodness, not just the one that is good. Because he is simply omnipotent, not just omnipotent.
Adoration is admiration, entering the depths of one’s being into the ineffability of God’s being. Adoration is new knowledge, a new way of talking to God, and a new approach to the Father of all creation. God redeemed us. That is why we worship him in gratitude, in the deep realization that we are loved, that we are free, and that we are partakers of God’s nature.
May this meditation introduce you to the glorious spaces of the immeasurable being of God. We are invited there. Adoration is one of the entrances to this.
He was born in Davor in 1938. After studying philosophy and theology in Zagreb and Rome, he was ordained a priest of the Zagreb Archdiocese in 1966. After achieving a master’s degree in philosophy and a doctorate in theology from the Pontifical Gregorian University in Rome, he returned to Zagreb in 1971, where he became a professor at the Catholic Faculty of Theology, University of Zagreb. He is the head of the Chair of Fundamental Theology, and was one of the editors of the Theological Review. Areas of his scientific work are philosophy, theology and literature. He explores the relationship between philosophy and theology, faith and science, atheism and religiosity, revelation and faith, the Church and ecclesial communities, Christianity and religion, the phenomenon of sects and issues of theological epistemology. His special field of interest is the study of man’s existential-spiritual dimension, where he discovers the way of modern evangelization and the necessity of the development of spiritual medicine, which, along with somatic and psychological, is indispensable in the complete healing of man, especially in the healing of spiritual diseases and addictions. For this purpose, he developed the method of hagiotherapy and founded in 1990 in Zagreb the Center for Spiritual Help, of which he is the head. From 1971, in addition to working at the faculty, he was a student religious teacher in Zagreb, the initiator of the prayer movement within the Church of the Croats, the founder of a religious society called the Prayer and Word Community(MiR), and the leader of numerous seminars for spiritual renewal and evangelization at home and abroad. After completing his studies and scientific doctorate in fundamental theology at … (Read more at https://hagio.hr/tomislav-ivancic/).
