within thy wounds, hide me.

Alienation from the Trinity continues to drive us to horrific things: drug addiction, consumerist materialism, religious and atheistic extremism, industrialized warfare, sexual delusion, exploitation of weak nations and peoples by strong ones… the list goes on and on. We tend to think of these things as inevitable results of modernity, or as something we can fix through education, but are they? Their origin, the scriptures show us, is much deeper. It comes from a decision we continue to make to live apart from the revealed will of God and the order manifest in his Creation. That separation leads to an anxiety we attempt to “fix” by seeking more and more autonomy, more and more control: in other words, to attempt to be God rather than to live in communion with God

Make me hear of joy and gladness, *     that the body you have broken may rejoice.

La Rose Complète, Rainer Maria Rilke 

My heart, therefore, is glad, and my spirit rejoices; * my body also shall rest in hope.

When my mind became embittered, *     I was sorely wounded in my heart.

It is a fearful thing to fall into the hands of the living God.

There is no law but that of love. Love is joy in others. What, then, is anger at them? If we have joy in the presence of others, we will convey it with words of love. It follows that words of irritation or annoyance about members of the community are unacceptable. This is why we can never allow talk against brothers or sisters or their character traits, whether openly or by insinuation – under no circumstances behind their backs. Gossiping within one’s own family is no exception.

Let integrity and uprightness preserve me, for my hope has been in you.

Then Peter came and said to him, "Lord, if another member of the church sins against me, how often should I forgive? As many as seven times?" Jesus said to him, "Not seven times, but, I tell you, seventy-seven times."

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"[Francis] wanted to own nothing so that he could possess everything more fully in the Lord."

Those who in secret slander their neighbor I will destroy, Those who have a haughty look and a proud heart I cannot abide.

Our chief object is to reflect that openness to all which was characteristic of Jesus. This can only be achieved in a spirit of chastity, which sees others as belonging to God and not as a means of self-fulfillment.