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Christianity and Reincarnation Webinar by Philip St.
Romain, M.S., D. Min.
July 28, 2016
7:00 p.m. C.D.T.
Can a Christian believe in reincarnation? This webinar will review evidence for and against reincarnation, history of Christian beliefs on this topic, and differences between Christian and Eastern views of liberation.
- Free-will donation. Register now When the soul betrays itself and loses the blessed and
longed-for fervor, let it carefully investigate the reason for losing it. And let it arm itself with all its longing and zeal against whatever caused this. For the former fervor can return only through the same door through which it was lost.
- St. John Climacus, The Ladder of Divine Ascent
(And God is waiting with complete acceptance and forgiveness.)
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Ps 146:1b-2, 3-4, 5-6ab; Mt 13:47-53
Jer
18:1-6
This word came to Jeremiah from the LORD:
Rise up, be off to the potter’s house;
there I will give you my message.
I went down to the potter’s house and there he was,
working at the wheel.
Whenever the object of clay which he was making
turned out badly in his hand,
he tried again,
making of the clay another object of whatever sort he pleased.
Then the word of the LORD came to me:
Can I not do to
you, house of Israel,
as this potter has done? says the LORD.
Indeed, like clay in the hand of the potter,
so are you in my hand, house of Israel.
Reflection on the
Scriptures |
“Indeed, like clay in the hand of the potter, so are you
in my hand, house of Israel.”
We might not care for the idea of being wet clay in the hands of a potter, but when the potter is the Lord, we are truly blessed. God knows exactly how to form us into a unique vessel for eternal joy.
Ignatius of Loyola sought riches and glory until a war wound forced him to rest while his shattered leg mended. He was moved by the scriptures and the life of Jesus to surrender to the Lord, and by God’s grace he was remade into a great spiritual leader, mystic and the founder of the Society of Jesus.
“Take, Lord, receive all my liberty. Give me only your love and
your grace.”
- from preacherexchange.com
Revelations of Divine
Love - by Julian of Norwich
Ninth Revelation, Chapter 22
“The Love that made Him to suffer passeth so far all
His Pains as Heaven is above Earth”
And here saw I, for the Second Beholding in this blessed Passion the love that made Him to suffer passeth as far all His pains as Heaven is above Earth. For the pains was a noble, worshipful deed done in a time by the working of love: but Love was without beginning, is, and shall be without ending. For which love He said full sweetly these words: If I might suffer
more, I would suffer more. He said not, If it were needful to suffer more: for though it were not needful, if He might suffer more, He would.
This deed, and this work about our salvation, was ordained as well as God might ordain it. And here I saw a Full Bliss in Christ: for His bliss should not have been full, if it might any better have been done.
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