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MSParrott
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What a beautiful soul
Thank you for posting this - I needed to hear this today.
Thank you for posting this - I needed to hear this today.
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dove_of_peace
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Thank you so much for your post!
I am an RN and I try to always remember Mother’s words before I start my assignment. She is such an inspiration to me and just when I am feeling burnt-out and think of leaving nursing, I remember what a gift I have that allows me to touch our Lord in such a special way…
Happy New Year to you!
God Bless,
-Linda
I am an RN and I try to always remember Mother’s words before I start my assignment. She is such an inspiration to me and just when I am feeling burnt-out and think of leaving nursing, I remember what a gift I have that allows me to touch our Lord in such a special way…
Happy New Year to you!
God Bless,
-Linda
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JReducation
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Beautiful:
Thank you so much for sharing this video clip. You’ll never know how much it meant to me. I had just returned from a New Year’s gathering with some family members, nothing fancy. As I was settling in for bed, I decided to meditate a little and something brought me to your post. I believe it was the Holy Spirit.
If I may share something personal, I was raised Jewish and converted to Catholicism while working on a PhD in mathematics of all things. As I came to the realization that mystery is a real part of our world and that it is necessary and actually works, I began to wonder about faith. After I finished studying the mysteries in the world of numbers, which in my mind says a great deal about the Divine, but that’s another thread, I decided to return to graduate school and enter an MA program in theology. I wanted to know more about God and what Catholics had to say about God. So, I majored in Spiritual Theology. I had no intention of converting to Catholicism. I thought I knew enough about it. Although my mother was Jewish and we were raised as Jews, as the law prescribes, my father was Catholic. We had a very loving relationship with him and his side of the family. Both of my parents recognized the value of a Catholic education, my mother for its discipline and academic excellence, especially in classical subjects and my father . . . Well, I guess in some deep hidden corner of his mind, he wanted us to know the Catholic faith.
We were fortunate to be educated by Franciscan Brothers. Later, when I attended graduate school, I ran into them again. It was through them that I was introduced to Mother Teresa. From that moment on, I fell in love with Catholicism. St. Francis and Mother Teresa seemed to bring together the richness of Revelation, not through fancy discourse, but through life. Their acceptance of each person, regardless of his condition, religion, economic status or even the state of the person’s soul, was the best lesson that I ever had on the Fatherhood of God. In Judaism, we see God as Creator. But the concept of Father is a very Christian concept. Mother Teresa and Francis brought the two together. They saw God as a Creative Father.
Although they understood the difference between saint and sinner, Christian and other, Catholic and Protestant, and so forth, they were comfortable being faithful to their Catholic faith, while at the same time allowing God to continue to work on each soul, one person at a time, rather than try to drag in the masses to conversion to Catholicism.
I believe that it is this sensitivity to the Creative and Saving power of God, along with the awareness that we are all brothers and sisters that actually draws more people to the Church than any theological argument. It’s an intuitive way of thinking that is the product of many years of contemplation of the Divine and his activity in the world. One arrives at an understanding that all things and people will be brought to perfection in Christ, through Christ and only by Christ. The rest of us are just small pencils in his hand.
Your post provided an opportunity for me to hear those words again, “When we look into the other person’s eyes, we only see Christ." I pray that those words will drive me this year and always. Thank you for being the first Instrument of Peace in my life, for the year 2008. I will remember this.
God bless you!
JR
Thank you so much for sharing this video clip. You’ll never know how much it meant to me. I had just returned from a New Year’s gathering with some family members, nothing fancy. As I was settling in for bed, I decided to meditate a little and something brought me to your post. I believe it was the Holy Spirit.
If I may share something personal, I was raised Jewish and converted to Catholicism while working on a PhD in mathematics of all things. As I came to the realization that mystery is a real part of our world and that it is necessary and actually works, I began to wonder about faith. After I finished studying the mysteries in the world of numbers, which in my mind says a great deal about the Divine, but that’s another thread, I decided to return to graduate school and enter an MA program in theology. I wanted to know more about God and what Catholics had to say about God. So, I majored in Spiritual Theology. I had no intention of converting to Catholicism. I thought I knew enough about it. Although my mother was Jewish and we were raised as Jews, as the law prescribes, my father was Catholic. We had a very loving relationship with him and his side of the family. Both of my parents recognized the value of a Catholic education, my mother for its discipline and academic excellence, especially in classical subjects and my father . . . Well, I guess in some deep hidden corner of his mind, he wanted us to know the Catholic faith.
We were fortunate to be educated by Franciscan Brothers. Later, when I attended graduate school, I ran into them again. It was through them that I was introduced to Mother Teresa. From that moment on, I fell in love with Catholicism. St. Francis and Mother Teresa seemed to bring together the richness of Revelation, not through fancy discourse, but through life. Their acceptance of each person, regardless of his condition, religion, economic status or even the state of the person’s soul, was the best lesson that I ever had on the Fatherhood of God. In Judaism, we see God as Creator. But the concept of Father is a very Christian concept. Mother Teresa and Francis brought the two together. They saw God as a Creative Father.
Although they understood the difference between saint and sinner, Christian and other, Catholic and Protestant, and so forth, they were comfortable being faithful to their Catholic faith, while at the same time allowing God to continue to work on each soul, one person at a time, rather than try to drag in the masses to conversion to Catholicism.
I believe that it is this sensitivity to the Creative and Saving power of God, along with the awareness that we are all brothers and sisters that actually draws more people to the Church than any theological argument. It’s an intuitive way of thinking that is the product of many years of contemplation of the Divine and his activity in the world. One arrives at an understanding that all things and people will be brought to perfection in Christ, through Christ and only by Christ. The rest of us are just small pencils in his hand.
Your post provided an opportunity for me to hear those words again, “When we look into the other person’s eyes, we only see Christ." I pray that those words will drive me this year and always. Thank you for being the first Instrument of Peace in my life, for the year 2008. I will remember this.
God bless you!
JR
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