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I never look at the masses as my responsibility; I look at the individual. I can only love one person at a time just one, one, one. So you begin. I began. I picked up one person. Maybe if I didn’t pick up that one person, I wouldn’t have picked up forty-two thousand.
The same thing goes for you, the same thing in our family, the same thing in our church, your community. Just begin: one, one, one.
- Mother Teresa
(One day at a time . . . one moment at a time . . . one person at a time . . . )
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NM 21:4B-9; PS 78:1BC-2, 34-35, 36-37, 38; PHIL 2:6-11
JN 3:13-17
Jesus said to Nicodemus:
"No one has gone up to heaven
except the one who has come down from heaven, the Son of Man.
And just as Moses lifted up
the serpent in the desert,
so must the Son of Man be lifted up,
so that everyone who believes in him may have eternal life."
For God so loved the world that he gave his only Son,
so that everyone who believes in him might not perish
but might have eternal life.
For God did not send his Son into the world
to condemn the world,
but that the world might be saved through him. USCCB Lectionary
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Feast of the exaltation of the Holy Cross.
God's love has been poured into our hearts through the gift of the Holy Spirit (Romans 5:5). Do you allow God's love to purify
your heart and the way your treat others? Do you allow God's love to transform your mind and the way you think of others? Do you allow God's love to conquer every unruly passion and addiction that would enslave you to sin and harmful behavior? The Holy Spirit gives us his seven-fold gifts of wisdom and understanding, right judgment and courage, knowledge and reverence for God and his ways, and a holy fear in God's presence (see Isaiah 11) that we may live God's way of life and serve in the power
and strength of his enduring love and mercy. Do you thirst for new life in the Spirit?
"Lord Jesus Christ, your death brought life for us. Fill me with your Holy Spirit that I may walk in freedom and joy as a child of God and as an heir with Christ of an eternal
inheritance."
- dailyscripture.net Paperback, Kindle
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God and I: Exploring the Connections between God, Self and Ego, by Philip St. Romain, 2016 (2nd ed.) ____________ Chapter 5: The Journey to Egoic Authenticity The Jesuit philosopher, Bernard Lonergan, has given us a good description of authenticity at work in our spiritual consciousness. Authentic people are faithful to what he calls four transcendental precepts:
- Being attentive. Noticing what is going on within oneself and around oneself. Being open to
experiencing life. Naming one’s experiences.
- Being intelligent. Noticing and honoring one’s questions, and formulating tentative answers to them. This applies not only to matters of logic, but to emotions and relationships as well. “Why do I feel this way?” is an example of this type of inquiry with regard to one’s psychological experience.
- Being reasonable. Critically analyzing one’s tentative responses and hypotheses. Trying to get at the real truth of the issue rather than settling for a shallow answer. This movement is a natural follow-up from #2 and can take time to come to a satisfactory judgment.
- Being responsible.
Acting on the truth and values one has come to hold. Making intelligent decisions.
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