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Aug022020

Humility

The Savior might have said: “Learn of Me to be chaste, humble, prudent, just, wise, abstemious, etc.” But He only says: “Learn of Me, because I am meek and humble of heart”; and in humility alone He includes all things, because, as St Thomas so truly says, “Acquired humility is in a certain sense the greatest good.” Therefore, whoever possesses this virtue may be said, as to his proximate disposition, to possess all virtues, and he who lacks it, lacks all.  —“Humility of Heart” by Capuchin Gaetano (Cajetan) Maria da Bergamo

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Aug022020

Concentrating upon the natural level

Paul concludes, saying, “You are not your own; you were bought with a price. Therefore, honor God with your body” (1 Cor. 6:19—20).

How does the body become God’s temple? Through the reality of Christ’s redemptive work. For Paul, the redemption is not just an article of faith—it is a life-giving, life-transforming power. When the Word became flesh, the human body was brought into the life of the Trinity. Christ imprinted a new dignity on the body of every man and woman.

With new dignity comes a new obligation. Paul puts it eloquently: “You were bought with a price.” The fruit of redemption is the Holy Spirit, who dwells within the body as a temple. The Spirit is a sanctifying gift of God. And by accepting the Spirit, the Christian receives himself again as a gift. He becomes who he was meant to be.  –John Paul II “Theology of the Body”

Artist Alex Venezia

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Jul292020

A Chosen Life

Woe to me, mother, that you gave me birth!
a man of strife and contention to all the land!
I neither borrow nor lend,
yet all curse me.
When I found your words, I devoured them;
they became my joy and the happiness of my heart,
Because I bore your name,
O LORD, God of hosts.
I did not sit celebrating
in the circle of merrymakers;
Under the weight of your hand I sat alone
because you filled me with indignation.
Why is my pain continuous,
my wound incurable, refusing to be healed?
You have indeed become for me a treacherous brook,
whose waters do not abide!
Thus the LORD answered me:
If you repent, so that I restore you,
in my presence you shall stand;
If you bring forth the precious without the vile,
you shall be my mouthpiece.
Then it shall be they who turn to you,
and you shall not turn to them;
And I will make you toward this people
a solid wall of brass.
Though they fight against you,
they shall not prevail,
For I am with you,
to deliver and rescue you, says the LORD.
I will free you from the hand of the wicked,
and rescue you from the grasp of the violent.

  1. Jeremiah
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