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Monday
21st Week OT
St. Luke Institute
August 23, 2013
CRUISE & DAMON
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Easy 2 accept Tom Cruise playing 007 in Mission Impossible or Matt
Damon in Bourne Supremacy
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Or, closer to home, friends in community theater
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In any such situations, the actor is pretending to be someone
other than who s/he is & that’s okay
WORD HYPOCRITE
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The word hypocrite that
J uses in Gospel was originally the Greek word for actor
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Meant 1 who pretends2 B someone s/he is not, but word took on a
very neg connotation
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Means a person who in real life is pretending to be other than
what s/he is – one who wears a mask – one who puts on externals to hide his/her
true self
GOSPEL WOES
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In Gospel, J begins series of 7 “woes” against religious leaders
of his day
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Calls them hypocrites – meaning actors, pretenders
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Their idea of religious observance was outward, externals, with no
concern for their inner self
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& its inner self that is < imp
INàout OR OUTà in ++++++++++++++++++++++++++
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Richard Rohr, in article, that 1 of our key problems today is the
lack of an inner life
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We need 2 go beyond creeds & moral systems & the rituals
of our worship
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Need an inner life & inner relationship w/ G
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In fact, either need this first or else externals will not make
sense
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Or externals must quickly lead us to this or they’ll feel hollow
& not hold up 4 us or 4 others
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Need 2 allow selves & others time 4 inner comm & open,
frank presence w/ an accepting G, G who’s J
CONCLUSION
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All of this from word “hypocrite” & J leveling it against
religious leaders of day
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