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Love – Do good – Give

13-09-2019, 07:17forgiveness, love, WitnessPermalink

Luke 6:39-42

Love, do good, give; the moral and ethical teaching of Jesus can be summed up in these four words.

The Church draws on thousands of years of teaching and human experience, much of it rooted in the dark alleys of confusion, darkness and sinfulness of its sons and daughters, clergy and lay people alike.

But the wisdom of the Church resides first in the wisdom of Christ. She is wise because Christ is wise; we are wise because Christ is wise. True wisdom is learning daily to live life in the Spirit, learning to listen to the Spirit and to give witness to the fruits and gifts of the Spirit.

In the midst of this endeavour we must live alongside people and learn to relate to them. The Christian faith should help us to master living alongside our fellows in fraternal love and affection. We learn not to judge others but to be quicker to judge ourselves.

”If you judge other people you have no time to love them.” St Mother Teresa of Calcutta

Chris

(from Bible Alive)

St Peter's Parish, Biggleswade

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I desire mercy, not sacrifice

05-07-2019, 07:14forgiveness, healingPermalink

Matthew 9:9-13

What the Pharisess failed to grasp – and we have our moments, too – is that we have all sinned and fall short of the glory of God. Despite the grace of baptism we carry the wound of original sin and, rather like soldiers on the front line, we seek healing and repair in the field hospital of Christ.

“I can clearly see that what the Church needs today is the ability to heal wounds and warm the hearts of the faithful, it needs to be by their side. I see the Church as a field hospital after a battle. It’s pointless to ask a seriously injured patiend whether his cholesterols or blood sugar levels are hight! It’s his wounds that need to be healed. The rest we can talk about later. Now we must think about treating those wounds.” Pope Francis

Chris

(from Bible Alive)

St Peter's Parish, Biggleswade

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