Hidden God
Our duty and primary mission as Catholics is to make Him known by the way we live our lives. Guess we have a bit more work to do!
Pondering Tidbits of Truth - April 18, 2024
Pondering Tidbits of Truth is my simple and inadequate way of providing nuggets of spiritual wisdom for you to chew on from time to time. Father Jacques Philippe “The fact that we can’t save ourselves is something we acknowledge in words, but in fact we find it very hard to accept. We’d all like to be saved by our own efforts…to shine in other people’s eyes, even on the spiritual level. Worldly people want to be highly regarded because they have luxurious cars, expensive watches, designer clothes, professional prestige, and go around with beautiful people. As good Christians, we may want to stand out for our virtues, charisms, experience, and sound judgement. Then we consider that we are on the right path. But in fact we’re in danger of ending up with exactly the same mindset as the worldly people described above. Very often, without realizing it, we have a worldly outlook on the spiritual life: self-fulfillment, self-affirmation, expansion of the ego, etc. And spiritual pride, w
Yes, we have more work to do, but also factor in the willful blindness of the many pharoahs today, drunk with power and money who refuse to give up their false gods and want to force the rest of us to offer sacrifice to them.
ReplyDeleteHow right you are Barb!. I pray that we will respond to God's grace and not succumb to the trials about to come.
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