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Salt, when dissolved in water, may disappear, but it does not cease to exist. We can be sure of its presence by tasting the water. Likewise, the indwelling Christ, though unseen, will be made evident to others from the love which he imparts to us.
… Sadhu Sundar
Singh
(Let this love flow through you this day.)
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DT 30:15-20; PS 1:1-2, 3, 4 AND 6
LK
9:22-25
Jesus said to his disciples:
"The Son of Man must suffer greatly and be rejected
by the elders, the chief priests, and the scribes,
and be killed and on the third day be raised."
Then he said to all,
"If
anyone wishes to come after me, he must deny himself
and take up his cross daily and follow me.
For whoever wishes to save his life will lose it,
but whoever loses his life for my sake will save it.
What profit is there for one to gain the whole world
yet lose or forfeit himself?"
USCCB Lectionary
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Luke 9: 22-25: Take up your cross!
Jesus tried to help his disciples realize that his commitment to love would lead him into a fatal conflict with the authorities of
his day. Dying to ourselves for the sake of love will lead us, with Jesus, to new life.
* Make a list of those personal traits which you need to change for the sake of love. Which of these most frustrates your efforts at loving?
* Pray for the grace to change destructive behaviors.
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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)
Self and God
But what of spirit? It is generally acknowledged that God is spiritual. If God is a spirit and Self is a spirit, could it be that Self is God’s very presence and awareness peeking out through the eyes of every human?
. . . Judaism, Christianity, and Islam recognize God as Creator and Source of every kind of creature, but also affirm that God endows creatures with their own particular form and consciousness that is theirs to exercise, each according to its own potentialities. Creatures receive their existence from God and so are not separate from God
nor even from one another in this sense. But creatures are also distinct from God in that it is not God who acts in and as the creature; it is the creature who acts. Whether the creature’s actions be in conformity with God’s intent and influence is another question altogether. In a perverse way, the existence of moral evil seems to prove that humans are individuals agents of freedom. Monists, it would seem, have a problem extricating God from direct responsibility for moral
evil.
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