A 16th Sunday after Pentecost Thought About How Love Instpires Universal Detachment - Continued
This 16th Sunday after Pentecost brings a final round of thoughts about how love inspires universal detachment. Our instructor remains our old friend, Father Joseph Schryvers. Right away, Father refers to "generous souls." Are we generous? If so...well, he lays out what should follow. But we must be generous if we are to understand and learn what Father is teaching us here. Now, for most of us, being generous with God may be a hit or miss thing. We like to reserve something for ourselves, no? It could be some sin we find hard to give up. We may fight hard to resist temptation in all other areas, but this particular thing resists our resistance. It's been with us all our lives. We know it's wrong, but it's kind of a "go to" source for "self" and self won't give it up - just yet. As such, it can serve as self's "lifeline" to avoid being replaced by the New Man, Christ. St. Paul talks about this. But let's not digress. Fathe...