A 14th Sunday after Pentecost Thought About How Love Inspires Universal Detachment
Our 14th Sunday after Pentecost thoughts bring back our old friend Fr. Schryvers who will teach us how love inspires universal detachment. "Detachment" has the primary meaning of "being objective or aloof." But Father isn't urging either on us. Certainly not aloof. But not really objective either. Being aloof can imply we're somehow above it all. The world and its creatures scurry about and are simply not either interesting or important enough for us - or something like that. As for being objective we should have developed the ability to be objective, especially in the world as we know and experience it these days. Our lives are filled with waves of media, most of which drench us with exaggerated emotion, misleading purported "facts," and outright lies. Being objective counters all this and therefore is good. But we'll see that this idea of Universal Detachment is so much more. And it will begin with being detached from ourselves. Those of us ...