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“That one alone is intelligent who tries to please God and is mostly silent, or, if s/he speaks, speaks little—and says only what is necessary and pleasing to God.”
- Anthony the Great -
(Sign in the monastery: “Do not break silence unless you can improve on it.” . . Something to keep in mind.) |
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2 COR 11:1-11; PS 111:1B-2, 3-4, 7-8
MT 6:7-15
Jesus said to his disciples:
"In praying, do not babble like the pagans,
who think that they will be heard because of their many words.
Do not be like them.
Your Father knows what you need before you ask him.
"This is how you are to pray:
'Our Father who art in heaven,
hallowed be thy name,
thy Kingdom come,
thy will be done,
on earth as it is in heaven.
Give us this day our daily bread;
and forgive us our trespasses,
as we forgive those who trespass against us;
and lead us not into temptation,
but deliver us from evil.'
"If
you forgive others their transgressions,
your heavenly Father will forgive you.
But if you do not forgive others,
neither will your Father forgive your transgressions."
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Matthew 6:7-15 (The Lord’s Prayer)
Today’s reading emphasizes the importance of being sincere and honest with God. Because God is not impressed by the length of time
that we pray, or how many words we say, or how much we promise to give him, Jesus shares with us a formula for prayer that plugs us into grace and forgiveness.
* With each verse of the Lord’s Prayer, spend some time reflecting on how your own life is influenced by these words. Add your own reflections.
* What faults
in other people bother you most? How are these faults evident in your own life? Ask God for forgiveness.
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God and I: Exploring the Connections between God, Self and Ego, by Philip St. Romain, 2016 (2nd ed.) ____________ Chapter 4: The False Self System (excerpts) One can speculate that in a perfect world the Ego would realize its root in
Self and have a natural intuition of God as well. Through its ongoing, realized union with Self as the source of its own subjectivity, the Ego would experience its unity with other people as well, who are also Selves, and its union with the cosmos through the levels of psyche and organism present within Self. The holistic nature of Self would be also realized; no internal splits would be experienced, no constriction of the Ego from the realm of the physical body. Something of the glory of God
would be known through Self, and, if God so wished, an inter-personal relationship between God and Ego could also exist. No dissolution or negation of Ego-intentionality would be required to experience this marvelous, unitive context of development. As long as the Ego maintained the same “attitude” as Self—open to God, the cosmos, social relationships, holistic experience—the identity and giftedness developed by the Ego would be congruent with Self. Indeed, Ego-consciousness would be the
crowning glory of creation, Self, and God. Without an Ego-consciousness, there would be no one to appreciate the cosmos, no one to express Self, and no one (on this planet, at least) to praise God for it all.
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