Keep
your eyes open!...
April 30, 2013
(1Th 5:6-10) Therefore,
let us not sleep, as others do: but let us watch, and be sober. For
they that sleep, sleep in the night; and they that are drunk, are drunk
in the night. But let us, who are of the day, be sober, having on the
breast plate of faith and charity and, for a helmet, the hope of
salvation. For God hath not appointed us unto wrath: but unto the
purchasing of salvation by our Lord Jesus Christ, Who died for us:
that, whether we watch or sleep, we may live together with him.
ARCHDIOCESE OF WASHINGTON: Three Prophetic Insights from Pope Leo XIII That Still speak powerfully 120 Years Later by Msgr. Charles Pope
EXCERPT MARK MALLETT BLOG: PREPARING
...That is, the “time of mercy” we are in has an end; it is not
indefinite, and depends upon our response to Heaven. And we must
readily admit that we have not responded to the warnings and messages
of Our Blessed Mother as we should have. We have not listened to nor
recognized divine warnings, whether from the popes or the prophets, to
bring the world back from the brink. And therefore, like the Prodigal
Son, we must begin to reap what we have sown, now that the world is
collectively broke—financially and most significantly, spiritually. But
like the Prodigal Son, it will be precisely in chastisement that the
world’s eyes will be opened, and we will be granted one last
opportunity to either return home to the Father… or remain separated
from Him for eternity.....
…before I come as the just Judge, I am coming first as the King of
Mercy… before I come as a just Judge, I first open wide the door of My
mercy. He who refuses to pass through the door of My mercy must pass
through the door of My justice… —Divine Mercy in My Soul, Jesus to St.
Faustina, Diary, n. 83, 1146
I know the words above will be alarming and even frightening to some
readers. And so, by God’s grace in the days to come, I wish to write
you more frequently, as my spiritual director has asked me to do. I
will try, then, to keep my writings shorter. In them, with God’s help,
I hope to ground your heart—not in fear—but in authentic hope that
grants us a divine perspective of all things.
You are precious to me, reader… so precious to Jesus. I thank God that
I have been able to share in the kind of love that St. Paul had for his
readers. We will not be abandoned in these times! There is a great
grace coming to the Church that will change everything. And so, turn
your hearts toward Jesus, fix your eyes upon Him, join the hand of your
Mother, and pray, pray, pray. For in prayer, God unites us to Himself,
clothes us in armour, and grants us all the graces we need to remain
faithful participants in the Kingdom.
RELATED RECENT MARK MALLET BLOGS
Dear Holy Father… He is Coming!
Prophecy, Popes, and Picarretta
The Hour of the Sword
Raise Your Sails (Preparing for Chastisement)
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Thoughts
and Sayings of Saint Margaret Mary: Self-effacement--Detachment
16. No longer heed the feelings of immortified
nature, nor the suggestions of self-love, which clamors to have, to pssess,
to keep and to hoard up. Let it cry out as much as it likes; we belong
to the Sacred Heart of Jesus, and we must have only what He wishes us to
have, and be glad to be like Him, stripped of all things.
April 24, 2013
(Rom 10:13-15) For
whosoever shall call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved. How then
shall they call on him in whom they have not believed? Or how shall
they believe him of whom they have not heard? And how shall they hear
without a preacher? And how shall they preach unless they be sent, as
it is written: How beautiful are the feet of them that preach the
gospel of peace, of them that bring glad tidings of good things?
EXCERPT VATICAN RADIO: Pope Francis: Church is in a love story
"But the Church does not grow by human strength. Some Christians have
gone wrong for historical reasons, they have taken the wrong path, they
have raised armies, they have waged wars of religion: that is another
story, that is not the story of love. Yet we learn, with our mistakes,
how the story of love goes. But how does it increase? Jesus said
simply: like the mustard seed, it grows like yeast in the flour,
without noise."
FIRST THINGS: Cross-Centered Catholic Renewal by George Weigel
EXCERPT INDEPENDENT.IE: Irish Archbishop Martin pledges to heal wounds of disillusioned
"Of course there are some who will not want to listen," he said. There
are others too who have been so hurt and betrayed in the past, that
understandably they find themselves unable to trust our message.That is
why we must continue, as Pope Benedict XVI exhorted us in his letter,
'to reflect on the wounds inflicted on Christ's body', and persevere in
our efforts to bind those wounds and heal them."
The cleric then referred to Pope Francis's call for the church to reach
out to people. "Pope Francis has spoken recently about the need
to 'go out of ourselves', beyond our usual comfort zones to the 'edges
of our existence'," he said. It is there, he says, that we meet the
poor, the forgotten, the disillusioned. And there we must sing
our new song in a way which will speak to the reality of their daily
lives, with all their hurts and burdens and troubles. The only way we
can do that is by singing about God's mercy and love for each one of us
personally."
"That is what the new song is about - it is a song of love, that God
unconditionally loves each one of us, despite our sinfulness and
imperfections, and that the Lamb of God, who suffered and died to take
away the sins of the world, has mercy on us. The singing of the
new song is not simply a task for bishops, priests and religious. It
belongs to all God's people. We are all called to holiness and to
mission."
"During this Year of Faith, I pray for a renewed outpouring of the Holy
Spirit in Ireland, enkindling the fire of God's love in the hearts of
all the faithful! My brothers and sisters, we need you to share in the
renewal and new evangelisation that is at the very heart of the
Church's mission. Sing the new song of the Lord with your hearts
and your lives, by witnessing to Christ in your families and
workplaces, and in the new mission fields of media, culture, business
and politics."
MORE: Self-giving love is not optional by Fr. Scott Lewis
CRISIS MAGAZINE: When the Going Gets Tough, the Tough Get Going
Thoughts
and Sayings of Saint Margaret Mary: Self-effacement--Detachment
15. Frankly, I do not think the favors which our
Lord promises you, to consist in an abundance of temporal things: for He
says that these often deprive us of His grace and of His love, whereas
it is with these latter gifts that He wishes to enrich your soul.
April 18, 2013
(John 15:18-20)
If the world hate you, know ye that it hath hated me before you. If you
had been of the world, the world would love its own: but because you
are not of the world, but I have chosen you out of the world, therefore
the world hateth you. Remember my word that I said to you: The servant
is not greater than his master. If they have persecuted me, they will
also persecute you. If they have kept my word, they will keep yours
also.
POPE FRANCIS:
“Let us pray especially for Christians who suffer persecution,” he
said, adding, “ – [and] in these times, there are many Christians who
suffer persecution, a great many, in many countries: let us pray for
them from our heart, with love, that they might feel the living and
comforting presence of the Risen Lord.”
ACN: Syria has become a battlefield
The head of an ancient Middle Eastern Church has described how "the
whole of Syria has become a battlefield" and has appealed to world
leaders to intervene in a bid to stop the fighting.
In a statement, Melkite Greek Catholic Patriarch Gregorios III Laham
says that the country’s “suffering has gone beyond all bounds” and that
the conflict “has mown down thousands and thousands” of people, both
civilians and military.
The Damascus-based patriarch estimates that, since the conflict broke
out two years ago, up to 400,000 Syrian Christians, possibly more than
25 percent of the total, are either displaced within the country or
have fled abroad.
In the statement, which was sent Monday, April 15, to Catholic charity
Aid to the Church in Need (ACN), Patriarch Gregorios reports that since
early 2011 more than 1,000 Christians have been killed, that “entire
villages have been cleared of their Christian inhabitants” and that
more than 40 churches and other Christian centers (schools, orphanages
and care homes) lie damaged or destroyed.
He states that key to the country’s problems are chaos and insecurity, as well as an influx of “fundamentalist Islamists.”
The patriarch declares that the threat to Christianity in Syria has
wider implications for the religion’s future in the region because for
decades the country has provided a refuge for faithful from Lebanon,
Iraq and elsewhere.
He states that the conflict poses a severe threat to Muslims, pitting one Islamic tradition against another.
As a Catholic charity for persecuted and other suffering Christians,
Aid to the Church in Need has provided ongoing emergency aid (food,
shelter and medicine) both in Syria and in neighboring countries,
working through leading bishops in the region.
VATICAN RADIO: Caritas Lebanon: desperate appeal for help for Syrian refugees
BOOK REVIEW: Persecuted on All Sides: Christians in the Modern World
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VIA A MOMENT WITH MARY: Our Lady of Arabia: A New Cathedral in Bahrain
The apostolic vicariate of Northern Arabia stretches over Bahrain, Kuwait, Qatar and Saudi Arabia.
Msgr Ballin explains: "I was in Kuwait when I received a phone call
from the Secretary of the Minister for Follow-Up Affairs, telling me
that the minister wanted to meet with me. Back in Bahrain, I
immediately went to see the minister, and it was with great emotion
that Sheikh Ahmed bin Atiyatallah Al Khalifa, the minister in charge of
the follow-up of decisions made by the king or the government, gave me
the land title for a 9,000 m2 plot where we will build the new church."
The document is dated February 11, 2013, feast of Our Lady of Lourdes,
who in Bahrain, corresponds to Our Lady of Arabia: "Our prayers have
been answered," the bishop wrote. "Our Lady of Arabia is well able to
perform miracles!" The new church will be the Cathedral of Arabia.
"In the course of that meeting, the minister invited me to go [today]
on February 13th to the royal palace to meet King Hamad bin Isa Al
Khalifah with all the religious officials. He added that I would be
seated next to the king as his special guest! I will therefore have the
opportunity to thank him for the land given precisely by royal order,"
Msgr Ballin concluded.
OUR LADY, QUEEN OF ARABIA, QUEEN OF PEACE, PRAY FOR US!
Thoughts
and Sayings of Saint Margaret Mary: Self-effacement--Detachment
14. Our Lord would fain be your sole Support, Friend
and Delight, provided you seek neither support nor delight in creatures.
Nevertheless, you must not be ill at ease or constrained in your intercourse
with your neighbor, but always humble, bright, kind and gracious in your
manner.
April 16, 2013
(Rom 12:21) Be not overcome by evil: but overcome evil by good.
VATICAN RADIO: Text of Telegram from Vatican Secretary of State to Cardinal Sean O'Malley
Deeply grieved by news of the loss of life and grave injuries caused by
the act of violence perpetrated last evening in Boston, His Holiness
Pope Francis wishes me to assure you of his sympathy and closeness in
prayer. In the aftermath of this senseless tragedy, His Holiness
invokes God’s peace upon the dead, his consolation upon the suffering
and his strength upon all those engaged in the continuing work of
relief and response. At this time of mourning the Holy Father prays
that all Bostonians will be united in a resolve not to be overcome by
evil, but to combat evil with good (cf. Rom 12:21), working together to
build an ever more just, free and secure society for generations yet to
come.
LINK: Statement from Cardian O'Malley
NCR: Horror at the Boston Marathon
EXCERPT Examiner.com: The hope of Christ in the carnage of Boston
Was Jesus Christ at that finish line yesterday, and if he was, where
could he be found? Christ was found quite readily in the nameless
people who helped scurry the injured from the scene, some of whom they
doubtless did not even know. Christ was in the hands and arms of the
emergency personnel who came quickly to save the lives of the injured.
Christ made himself known in the runners who went back to aid the
hurting people in the crowd. Christ was certainly present in the words
and sorrow felt by Sean Cardinal O'Malley, who must feel the spiritual
weight of the world falling on him today. Christ comes in the clergy
and religious who helped direct people away from danger and offer
prayers and Masses for the sick and the dead. In the acts of kindness
and the acts of aid, Jesus was at that finish line.
Pray for the presence of Christ to be felt by all of those impacted by the terrorism at the Boston Marathon.
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EXCERPT FIRST HAND VICTIM'S ACCOUNT: Bostonians reach out and turn their goodness on me
I plodded to the 35-kilometre mark when a spectator offered me a slice
of orange, his face troubled. ''There have been explosions near the
finish line. The marathon has been temporarily suspended.''
Naively I ran on.
Police and runners were mingling on the course. Some wept wrenchingly,
their features distorted in grief, or shock. Many had relatives waiting
at the line.
The crowds fell quiet. Overhead, helicopters clattered. Police vehicles were racing everywhere, ambulance sirens shrieked.
Police turned back those of us still running. I needed to contact
family. Strangers handed me their phone. I asked a teenager for
directions to a local landmark where my relatives would be; the teen
insisted on escorting me there.
As I waited, strangers stopped to offer help. One bloke wanted to give
me his jacket so I wouldn't get cold. Passers-by touched me. One
stopped, gazed at me, shaking his head. ''I am sorry,'' he said.
Boston silenced, in shock, in grief. Its citizens reaching out to each
other in spontaneous solidarity. More than that, people felt implicated
in a wrong, embarrassed: their guests had been hurt, frightened. They
turn their goodness upon me and I feel like crying.
A terrible beauty born.
LINK: Boston Marathon bombings: How to help
Thoughts
and Sayings of Saint Margaret Mary: Self-effacement--Detachment
13. We must be content with and conformed to His
most holy Will, stripped and destitute of pleasure, friends, consolation,
talents, and aware of our lack of virtue.
April 12, 2013
(Psa 8:4-6) What
is man, that thou art mindful of him? or the son of man, that thou
visitest him? Thou hast made him a little less than the angels,
thou hast crowned him with glory and honour: And hast set him over the
works of thy hands.
SHOCKING: Doctors in China Have Performed 336 Million Abortions Since 1971
Official data from China’s health ministry has revealed just how
pervasive abortions have been in China since it instituted its
one-child policy. Since 1971, Chinese doctors have performed 336
million abortions in a country with a population of 1.35 billion. They
have also performed 196 million sterilizations and inserted 403 million
intrauterine devices, a birth control procedure that some have said are
forced on women in China, reports the Financial Times. China has
estimated that without the birth restrictions its population would now
be around 30 percent larger.
In the United States, with about one-quarter of China’s population, an
estimated 50 million abortions have been performed since the Roe v Wade
decision legalized the practice in 1973. Even though many have been
calling for a softening of the one-child rule, the number of procedures
has remained steady since the late 1990s, with around 7 million
abortions and 2 million sterilizations per year.
EXCERPT VIA Anne Lastman: Broken Branches Issue 92 (http://www.victimsofabortion.com.au/):
How Did I Survive An Abortion? by Imre Teglasy (Hungary)
I begin my story with my family, and especially with my father, who was
a major in Hungary till the end of the
Second World War. As a professional soldier
with his religious conviction (he was born in a
Catholic family of eight children) he was declared
a class-enemy of the new Communist regime and was sacked at once
and removed with his wife and two sons from
Budapest to the Great Hungarian Plain (puszta). They
were ordered not to leave their dwelling
place. He could hardly find the most
basic job ... he and his family were starving.
In this sad plight my father's
wife realized she was pregnant. My father
tried to protect me, but my mother did not want
to carry me to term. But it
was not so simple to get rid of an unborn baby in the early
'50s ... so she asked my grandfather staying in the capital to get a
doctor who would be willing to perform the abortion. He found such a
doctor in Budapest but class enemies were not
allowed to leave the plain (puszta),
so while my father was absent
she tried to cause an abortion by jumping
down from a kitchen table; when that failed she took very hot baths in
a tub but they were not successful either. Then she
got a lot of quinine pills
from her brother. She took them but they
were not sufficient to cause a miscarriage so I was
born.
I heard the story of my birth accidentally when I was 11
years old and when my father
and I were staying in Yugoslavia with relatives. It
was late at night and I had gone to bed in the
room in which my father and my relatives
were talking. At that time
my parents had already divorced and
one of my relatives asked my
father why. Thinking I was asleep, my
father told him the story.
As I lay there in bed, neither a small child nor an adult, I
cried, speechlessly, all night long into my pillow. I experienced an
emotional earthquake. I felt good myself and I did not know why my
mother had tried to kill me at all.
I am still looking for the
answer which is perhaps blowing with
the wind, since she died some years ago.
There are two different expressions in
our Hungarian language concerning
"mother". One of them ("édesanya") is
connected with "sweetness" meaning that the sweetness
of a loving mother has a connection to the milk you
get from her bosom. The other word
("anya") simply means that somebody has a mother but this
term is very formal and has no
special content of sentiment so one uses this
term in every official form requiring the name
of your parent. In fact my mother tried to kill me, terrorised by
the economical pressure of the regime and when
it was not successful she didn't give me suck,
so I was neither able to enjoy her milk nor her love.
Later when I was two years old I was found by a
very nice young lady who lifted me
up to her heart from under the
kitchen table. She bought me new clothes,
shoes, brought me to the opera-house for performances (since she was a
ballet-dancer) and to the photographer since she was proud of
"her" nice godson ... my relatives told me that I
had usually called her with this
word: "mother" (édesanya).
My biological mother could not love me although I was
begging or dancing for her approval and
acceptance. I studied well, become a well-known writer by
publishing several books, carried out
scientific research and won academic honours but
everything seemed to be in vain since I was not
able to win her love. In my twenties I published a
book of poems and one of
these works reflects on my life story using the ancient
Greek myth of Penelope. In this poem you can
analyse the confused bonding of an abortion-survivor
with his parent or with the abuser of her child.
PENELOPE, MY MOTHER
You sit on the stigma of silence with averted eyes
You would draw my face
onto your withered lap Spin it over weave it through with sea-blue veins
with scarlet reed
Spin me over weave me through with snake
with strand of hair Unravel me by night give birth to me by day only kill me by night
You would piece together my bones a stripped-down image
for the walls of your palace bind my skin and gut
as strings onto your harp.
Is it an axe that I am? Propped up in a corner is it a prince?
sewn inside a frog's skin.
(Translated by Eva Kovacs-Hicks, Toronto)
It took 50 years of pain and sorrow
to overcome the situation of a deeply damaged
(unborn) child and that of a post-abortive mother ...
I always tried to love my mother
... meanwhile I realized that I hated those
foods (cheese, beer, etc) which
she liked whilst, on the
contrary, I liked the kind of women who have black hair and eyes,
slight face which reminded me of my god-
mother. So many times I asked myself:
where is my mother, how can I love her?
Before her death the Lord gave me the answer by
His merciful forgiveness. After so many years of
struggling, begging and dancing for her love I
finally was able to
reconcile with her before her death. It happened by not
accepting but rather
understanding some of the
elements of the kind of
"internal" terrorism which pushed and pressured
her to kill me. And finally I am going to die too and I badly
need this forgiveness of the Lord for my own sins as well.
There is a picture in my bedroom above my bed. This
photo was taken by the sculpture of the Pieta carved by
Michelangelo in the middle of 16th century. The picture illustrates
the Blessed Virgin who is a Patron Saint
of Hungary and now she is perhaps my mother and hope and
trust as well.
Against the civilisation of death I am now
working for the culture of life
full time. From the special grace offered
me by Almighty God, the Creator, I have a large family ...
The smiles of my children and wife
are my strongest weapons in doing my
duty to protect life! Thanks to the Lord!
LINK TO ENTIRE ISSUE: Broken Branches Issue 92 for April/May, 2013
VIDEO: Personal Story: Imre Téglásy, Human Life International
Thoughts
and Sayings of Saint Margaret Mary: Self-effacement--Detachment
12. May He teach you what He desires of you, and
may He give you the strength to accomplish it perfectly! If I am not mistaken
this, in a few words, is what I think He chiefly requires of you: He wishes
that you should learn to live withut support- without a friend- and without
satisfaction. In proportion as you ponder over these words, He will help
you to understand them.
April 9, 2013
(Jude 1:17-19) But
you, my dearly beloved, be mindful of the words which have been spoken
before by the apostles of our Lord Jesus Christ: Who told you that in
the last time there should come mockers, walking according to their own
desires in ungodlinesses. These are they who separate themselves,
sensual men, having not the Spirit.
MSGR CHARLES POPE: Reaping the Whirlwind: A reflection on the deepening darkness that celebrates homosexual unions and activity.
POPE FRANCIS (2010): From a letter to the Carmelite Sisters of Buenos Aires on the perils of gay marriage:
“Let’s not be naïve, we’re not talking about a simple political battle;
it is a destructive pretension against the plan of God. We are not
talking about a mere bill, but rather a machination of the Father of
Lies that seeks to confuse and deceive the children of God.”
NEWS HEADLINE: Gay Marriage Supporters Should Avoid Taking Communion, Says Allen Vigneron, Detroit Catholic Archbishop
MORE: Catholic church removes 'married' gay man as confirmation teacher, lector
PATHEOS: Why the Catholic Church Will Never Support Gay Marriage
1. Hell is real.
2. People go there forever.
3. Homosexual acts can send you to hell.
4. The Church will never condone gay marriage because it will never condone anything that will send people to hell beause
5. The business of the Church is helping people go to heaven, not sending them to hell.
CARDINAL TIMOTHY DOLAN:
“Sometimes by nature, the Church has gotta be out of touch with
concerns, because we’re always supposed to be thinking of the beyond,
the eternal, the changeless.”
LIFESITENEWS EDITORIAL EXCERPT: Why we are losing the gay ‘marriage’ debate (and how we can win)
“Gay marriage is inevitable.” That’s what we’re told by gay activists.
It’s a taunt devised to pick off the more faint-hearted clingers-on of
traditional marriage by exploiting the human instinct to be on the
winning side. And all too often, it works.
Traditional marriage advocates rightly protest that this isn’t an
argument. Nothing, they say, is 'inevitable' that depends on the free
choice of human beings. But this is an evasion. Look at the polls.
Witness the slow but steady capitulation of state after state, country
after country, to the new marriage regime. Gay ‘marriage’ may not be
inevitable. But can we honestly deny that the momentum is firmly on its
side?
The mistake comes in thinking that because gay “marriage” is a
relatively new innovation, this momentum is merely a temporary shift of
the political winds. According to this way of thinking, all that is
needed is enough cash, a large-enough team of motivated and intelligent
lawyers, strategists and jingoists, and a calm appeal to common sense
and we will sail smoothly back in the direction of cultural sanity with
a balmy zephyr blowing at our backs.
But while gay ‘marriage’ may have all the appearance of a fad, this is
only an illusion. It is not a fad. It is not new. It is, in fact, the
logical conclusion of the whole trajectory of social and sexual mores
of the past century. The momentum enjoyed by the gay marriage movement
is not that of a mere shift of the ever-fickle political winds. If it
is to be compared to any sort of meteorological event, it should be
compared to a hurricane: a storm that has been gathering energy for
many days out at sea before ever making landfall.
A typical definition of “traditional marriage” (or what would, in a
healthier society, simply be called “marriage”) goes something like
this: “Marriage is the life-long, exclusive union of one man and one
woman oriented towards the begetting and rearing of children.” This is
the ideal that the traditional marriage movement proclaims. And it is a
beautiful ideal, and well worth defending.
But an honest look at the cultural landscape raises the question of
just how much is left to defend. The statistics suggest that social
conservatives may be brandishing their scimitars not in defense of a
robust institution suddenly threatened by a new and hostile cultural
force, but rather the smoking ruins of an institution long ago
surrendered and abandoned as lost. The Sexual Revolution of the 60s,
and what a friend of mine calls the subsequent “hell of the Divorce
Tsunami” of the 70s, have already swept this Thing That We Used to Call
Marriage out to sea, leaving us clinging to the bobbing flotsam and
jetsam.
By this point the statistics are so familiar that they have ceased to
be shocking. And yet the numbers ought to shock us. Right now, some
sixty percent of couples cohabit before marriage; nearly half of all
marriages end in divorce; a record number of Americans aren’t bothering
to get married in the first place, and those that do get married are
getting married ever later; 41 percent of all children are born out of
wedlock; 35 percent of children live in single-parent homes; only 61
percent of children under 18 live with their biological parents; and
the birth rate has now dipped below the replacement level, as couples
are having fewer and fewer, or sometimes no children at all.
So much for marriage being “life-long,” “exclusive” and child-oriented!
Well then, what do we have left? Only the final third of our definition
of traditional marriage: that marriage should be between one man and
one woman. From the perspective of the gay rights movement, getting rid
of this final scrap of our definition is not so much a cultural
revolution, as it is a mop-up job. The revolution already happened. Now
it’s simply a question of tying up the loose ends.
And they are not wrong.
The question, then, is not so much whether we are willing to do the
hard work to stem the tide of gay “marriage” (which, of course, we must
do), but rather whether we are willing to put our shoulder to the much
harder task of rolling back the social revolution that ever permitted
gay “marriage” to be calmly discussed as a viable option by reasonable
people in the first place.
What makes it increasingly likely that gay “marriage” will become a
reality is that the answer, in many cases, is quite frankly,
“No.” (click for more...)
CRISIS MAGAZINE: The Well-Being of Children by Dale O'Leary
Thoughts
and Sayings of Saint Margaret Mary: Self-effacement--Detachment
9. He will raise you to union with Himself in proportion
as He finds you lowered in your own estimation. Do everything, therefore,
through love and from a motive of humility.
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