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One Love
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| Posted 2/24/2011 2:06 AM (GMT -6) |   | | Good read.
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“Christification” is based on the words, “It is no longer I who live, but Christ who lives in me.” The image of God, the icon of Christ which truly is my real and actual essence is the only measure of things, the only way given to me…Christ gave us two commandments: to love God and to love our fellow man. Everything else, even the Beatitudes, are merely elaborations of the two commandments which contain within themselves the totality of Christ’s Good News…It is remarkable that their truth is found only in their indissolubility. Love for man alone leads us to the blind alley of anti-Christian humanism and the only way out of it is, at times, to reject man and love for him in the name of all mankind. But love for God without love for man is condemned…These two commandments are two aspects of a single truth. Destroy either one and you destroy the whole truth."
--Mother Maria Skobtsova
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The “evangelical” or radical life of the Gospel is described as giving away to others (OL: "Exhaling" God's love) the love one receives in abundance from God. (OL: "Inhaling" God's love) If we cannot love the neighbor whom we can see, it is impossible to love the God we cannot see.
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"In a special manner the invocation of the name of Jesus makes the grace of his Incarnation universal, allowing each of us our personal share and disposing our hearts to receive the Lord… When the divine Name is pronounced over a country or a person, these enter into an intimate relationship with God… The “prayer of the heart” frees and enlarges it and attracts Jesus to it … In this prayer … the whole Bible with its entire message is reduced to its essential simplicity… When Jesus is drawn into the heart, the liturgy becomes interiorized and the Kingdom is in the peaceful soul. The Name dwells in us as its temple and there the divine presence transmutes and Christifies us…"
--Paul Evdokimov
Lord Jesus Christ, Son of God, have mercy on me, a sinner. Post Edited (One Love) : 2/25/2011 2:09:22 PM (GMT-6) | | Back to Top | | |
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One Love
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One Love
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| Posted 2/24/2011 10:32 AM (GMT -6) | | | Listen with an open mind.
From "The Least of These"...
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Directly addressing the rich young man rhetorically, Basil contends that his failing is his treasuring of possessions over love of God and neighbor:
"If what you assert was true, that you have kept the command of love since your youth and have distributed what you have as much to others as to yourself, how is it you have this excess of wealth? For care of the needy consumes our wealth, when each person receives a small amount to meet his or her own necessities, and all divide up what they have equally and use it for those in need. But you seem to have many possessions. How is that? Is it not clear that you have considered your own enjoyment more precious than the comfort of the masses? Surely the more you abound in wealth, the more you are lacking in love!"
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