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Wednesday 23rd
Week OT
St. Luke’s Institute
September 11, 2013
A NEW UNDERSTANDING
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Physicist Albert Einstein once said, “Problems cannot be solved at the same
level of awareness that created them”
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This is especially when dealing with deeply
entrenched issues such as systemic poverty, injustice, and violence
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No, old ways of thinking just don’t seem to work
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The mental and social constructs we have relied
upon have not held up over time
EPISTLE AND THE OLD
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In today’s epistle, Paul says that Christians
must grow beyond what they have always known and practiced
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It’s not enough to apply our very human methods
of anger, violence, scheming, compulsions to arrive at a better outcome
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Old ways never bring the result we had hope for
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Christ has placed us on a higher plane and we
must bring our minds and hearts to that elevated state
GOSPEL AND A NEW WAY
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In today’s Gospel, Jesus urges upon his
listeners a different way of seeing
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He doesn’t promise that people will be blessed
at some future time when the world is a better place
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He says that at this very moment we are blessed
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Whether mourning or persecuted or hungry or
longing for justice
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On this plane of thinking and perceiving,
blessing already exists
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It’s practically impossible to see today’s date –
September 11th – and not think of the terrorism and fear that we so
wish to eliminate from life on Earth
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What better reason to pray for that higher
thinking that comes from the mind of God?
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What better day to pray for a transformed view
and a deeper wisdom?
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