Went to mass today, but St. Antony wasn't mentioned (a big St. Mary church). Bless him and all who are inspired by his path to Christ; Franciscan simple, Dominican eloquent, may those who have lost themselves find themselves by his guiding light of love and liberation.
I have come not to abolish but to fulfill. Amen, I say to you, until heaven and earth pass away,
not the smallest letter or the smallest part of a letter will pass from the law, until all things have taken place. Therefore, whoever breaks one of the least of these commandments and teaches others to do so
will be called least in the Kingdom of heaven (Mt 5:17-19)
More confusion on my part. Are the two laws 'Love God and love neighbour' lost in the forest of ancient Jewish letters and iotas of law? Breaking the least of them? How about the big ones like anger, divorce and usury? I took a look at the British Catholic Herald and came upon a news article dwelling on the formal Catholic teaching on sexuality. 'Here we go again', me thinks. Yes, doom and gloom and sin and calling one another disordered, sinful and other sundry exclusionary terms. And the Comment section was just as fruitless. Here at the bottom of the hierarchy, i know it's the top's job to maintain formal dogma through the ages, but can't they do a better job marketing Jesus' message? Sure we need to examine our intentions, our motives, they way we live and the way we interact with our neighbours, but ... [sigh]. I prefer the stance of ones 'sins' being 'unhelpful' in the progress along the Way. I have to choose voluntarily: yes, as a creature of the 20th century and western individualism i am stubborn and ego-centric, but is that not why i have been drawn to the message of love, peace, sharing, caring, salt of the earth and light in the darkness? Should i be a self-deciding Protestant? More fragmentation and separation. Why would my neighbour drive me away from the sacraments ... ever?! This speaks more of abolishment than fulfilment, me thinks. Blessed cardinals of the Curia, even weeds have beautiful flowers that feed butterflies and are essential to the ecological balance of Earth: the human mind has created the lable 'weed'. Am i to be least in the Kingdom of heaven? I'll let God judge me on that, if you please.
Let St. Anthony and all the saints smile on us with grace and confidence, with encouragement and consolation. Let us not be discouraged and turn a deaf ear to our fellow men who in their passion and self-righteousness might grow too high and too brittle to weather the winds being human. Nothing lasts for ever, my friends, except that which is the alpha and the omega, the all, the one, the beginning and the end and the beginning of existence. May that we know this Truth in this lifetime so that we might share it with others as St. Anthony, to make this world shine in glory as it always has, always is and always shall be.
Deo gratias.
I have come not to abolish but to fulfill. Amen, I say to you, until heaven and earth pass away,
not the smallest letter or the smallest part of a letter will pass from the law, until all things have taken place. Therefore, whoever breaks one of the least of these commandments and teaches others to do so
will be called least in the Kingdom of heaven (Mt 5:17-19)
More confusion on my part. Are the two laws 'Love God and love neighbour' lost in the forest of ancient Jewish letters and iotas of law? Breaking the least of them? How about the big ones like anger, divorce and usury? I took a look at the British Catholic Herald and came upon a news article dwelling on the formal Catholic teaching on sexuality. 'Here we go again', me thinks. Yes, doom and gloom and sin and calling one another disordered, sinful and other sundry exclusionary terms. And the Comment section was just as fruitless. Here at the bottom of the hierarchy, i know it's the top's job to maintain formal dogma through the ages, but can't they do a better job marketing Jesus' message? Sure we need to examine our intentions, our motives, they way we live and the way we interact with our neighbours, but ... [sigh]. I prefer the stance of ones 'sins' being 'unhelpful' in the progress along the Way. I have to choose voluntarily: yes, as a creature of the 20th century and western individualism i am stubborn and ego-centric, but is that not why i have been drawn to the message of love, peace, sharing, caring, salt of the earth and light in the darkness? Should i be a self-deciding Protestant? More fragmentation and separation. Why would my neighbour drive me away from the sacraments ... ever?! This speaks more of abolishment than fulfilment, me thinks. Blessed cardinals of the Curia, even weeds have beautiful flowers that feed butterflies and are essential to the ecological balance of Earth: the human mind has created the lable 'weed'. Am i to be least in the Kingdom of heaven? I'll let God judge me on that, if you please.
Let St. Anthony and all the saints smile on us with grace and confidence, with encouragement and consolation. Let us not be discouraged and turn a deaf ear to our fellow men who in their passion and self-righteousness might grow too high and too brittle to weather the winds being human. Nothing lasts for ever, my friends, except that which is the alpha and the omega, the all, the one, the beginning and the end and the beginning of existence. May that we know this Truth in this lifetime so that we might share it with others as St. Anthony, to make this world shine in glory as it always has, always is and always shall be.
Deo gratias.
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