tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8254272216866737058.post850684931608389491..comments2024-03-25T20:03:03.657-06:00Comments on Καθολικός διάκονος: Year I, Fifth Thursday in Ordinary TimeDeacon Scotthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01385969740195992108noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8254272216866737058.post-66416573772168124312007-02-10T21:05:00.000-07:002007-02-10T21:05:00.000-07:00Dear Scott,It's likely you have been made awar...Dear Scott,<br><br>It's likely you have been made aware of the latest collaboration of self-help mumbo jumbo called "<i>The Secret</i>"? <br><br>In contrast to that, I am so very grateful to you, for your teaching. In your homily you spoke about "turning in on ourselves". What a profound way to talk about this tendency we have as humans, to think *we* need to be the center of, and in control of everything, including the Universe! <br><br>What a contradiction we have in Christ. What a wonderful contradiction.taminoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8254272216866737058.post-68545475000122095982007-02-11T07:47:00.000-07:002007-02-11T07:47:00.000-07:00Tami: Thank you for your kindness and encouragemen...Tami:<br><br> Thank you for your kindness and encouragement. I have not heard about <i>'The Secret'</i>. Yes, Christ is <i><b>the</b></i> contradiction our fallen human nature. <br><br>I love the language used by then-Cardinal Ratzinger in his second book-length interview with journalist Peter Seewald, who returned to the faith after his first encounter with Joseph Ratzinger, entitled <i>'God and the World'</i>: the God who is so big that, for our sake, became small.Dcn Scott Dodgehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09994604395739905637noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8254272216866737058.post-11784957798821158862007-02-11T09:54:00.000-07:002007-02-11T09:54:00.000-07:00www.thesecret.tvI'm sure you will hear about i...www.thesecret.tv<br><br>I'm sure you will hear about it. It's "sweeping the nation". I've had three *Christian* friends bring this to my attention in the past week; and then of course the entire panel of "Teachers of the Secret" made their appearance on Oprah! this past week. My response: if you're going to profess you're a Christian, then proclaim Christ. This has nothing to do with Christianity.<br><br>While my <i>boat has barely left the pier</i> as far as my new and admittedly limited understanding of God and Grace goes, still; I would rather fall at Jesus' feet and his "table scraps of Grace", than to have the entire Universe at my beck and call without Him in it.<br><br>Thank you again Scott for helping to keep us grounded in Christ.taminoreply@blogger.com