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To live in a fully predictable world is not to be truly human, and Christ was truly human. His prayer in Gethsemane, his sweat of blood, show that the preceding anxiety is a part of human affliction, which we must try to accept with some sort of submission.
… Kathryn
Lindskoog (1934-2003)
(It is good to be human. Give thanks for the human vessel of God's love that you are. )
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ACTS 8:26-40; PS 66:8-9, 16-17, 20
JN 6:44-51
Jesus said to the crowds:
"No one can come to me unless the Father who sent me draw him,
and I will raise him on the last day.
It is written in the prophets:
They
shall all be taught by God.
Everyone who listens to my Father and learns from him comes to me.
Not that anyone has seen the Father
except the one who is from God;
he has seen the Father.
Amen, amen, I say to you,
whoever believes has eternal life.
I am the bread of life.
Your
ancestors ate the manna in the desert, but they died;
this is the bread that comes down from heaven
so that one may eat it and not die.
I am the living bread that came down from heaven;
whoever eats this bread will live forever;
and the bread that I will give
is my Flesh for the life of the world."
USCCB Lectionary
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John 6:44-51: Jesus, the Living Bread
The Jews had complained that Jesus could not be from God since they knew of his human origins. Jesus now replies that there is a spiritual sidle to him
that is of God. If they want to know about God, they
need only to look to him.
* What are some of the sources of grace in your life now? How do these gifts help to make you who you are?
* Think of some way to let the people who are grace to you know that you are thankful for the gifts they bring to your life.
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God and I: Exploring the Connections between God, Self and Ego, by Philip St. Romain, 2016 (2nd ed.) ____________ Chapter 3: Ego (excerpts)
Self as “that-I-am” is not particularly concerned about questions of identity, as it is enough to simply “be.” Such is not the case with Ego, however. As noted above, our interactions with people and the world around us help us realize
things about ourselves that we would not know otherwise. It doesn’t take too many months of life outside the womb before we begin to realize that we ourselves are a player on the field -- someone with a name, relating to others who have names, and that some behaviors are acceptable while others are not. The child refers to itself in the third person for awhile, using its own name as a referent, but eventually comes to use the subjective pronoun “I” in sentences. This “I” indicates more than just
a linguistic convention; it is a sign that the child’s mind has developed to the extent that it is able to affirm a separation between the child and its environment. “I” in its most basic disposition means “the-one-who-speaks” and (implied) the one who speaks for the one who is not the other. “I” is a perceiver and actor in the world of duality.
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