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Grant me, O Lord, to design only what is lawful and right, and afford me calmness of mind, and steadiness of purpose, that I may so do Thy will in this short life, as to obtain happiness in the world to come, for the sake of Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.
… Samuel
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GN 2:18-25; PS 128:1-2, 3, 4-5
MK
7:24-30
Jesus went to the district of Tyre.
He entered a house and wanted no one to know about it,
but he could not escape notice.
Soon a woman whose daughter had an unclean spirit heard about him.
She came and fell at his feet.
The woman was a Greek, a Syrophoenician by birth,
and she begged him to drive the demon out of her daughter.
He said to her, "Let the children be fed
first.
For it is not right to take the food of the children
and throw it to the dogs."
She replied and said to him,
"Lord, even the dogs under the table eat the children's scraps."
Then he said to her, "For saying this, you may go.
The demon has gone out of your daughter."
When the woman went home, she found the child lying in bed
and the demon gone.
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Mark 7: 24-30 (Daughter of a Gentile woman healed)
Jesus’ seemingly harsh rebuke to the woman is softened somewhat when we realize that the word he used for dog actually means house pet. His confrontation with the woman draws a faith response from her while teaching his
disciples that God’s grace is for all people, not just Jews.
* What kind of demon is straining relationships in your family? What does love require to exorcise this demon?
* Pray for the grace to be more loving to family members.
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God and I: Exploring the Connections between God, Self and Ego, by Philip St. Romain, 2016 (2nd ed.) ____________ Chapter 2: Self (excerpts) - three interactive levels of human nature -
One way to express this understanding would be to say that both the organismic and psychic dimensions of human existence are en-spirited. Yet another would hold that a human is an embodied, en-psyched spirit. Spirit manifests through psyche and organism and, more directly, through its own disciplines of perception and
expression. Feelings and images indicate not only one’s inner disposition (as with the higher mammals), but, in the light of spirit, reveal something of the meaning of the events of one’s life. Similarly, a smile isn’t just a physical indicator of well-being, but a means by which the human spirit communicates love and acceptance to another. It is the human spirit that informs and integrates into itself the levels of organism and psyche so as to constitute each human as an undivided
whole. Hardback, paperback, eBook and free preview versions.
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