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Tuesday 25th Week OT
The Institute
September 22, 2015
HUMAN RELATIONSHIPS
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One of the most important and, in fact,
essential experiences we as humans have is our relationships
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Actually, human relationships are based on the
relationship that we see in God as Father, Son, and HS
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Everyone will admit that the worst possible
punishment is solitary confinement
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In fact, that would be the best definition of
hell…
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Total and eternal isolation from any and all
relationships, especially from God
DIVINE RELATIONSHIPS +++++++++++++++++
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And so Jesus expresses the basic truth that all
human flourishing is based on relationship…
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First with God and then with each other
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In other words, the deepest of all relationships
goes beyond blood or cultural ones
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That is why our Catholic theology is not a
theology of a heaven composed of “God and
me and no one else”
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Rather, it is God, me, and everyone else
HUMAN LOVING ++++++++++++++++++++++++
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Some XTNS may believe that heaven is a matter of
individuals eternally praising & loving G alone
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On the contrary, in Jesus we see there’s nothing
that makes G happier than seeing his children loving 1 another
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God doesn’t need us to love him, though we will,
of course
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He needs us to love each other; this gives him
the greatest praise
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Just as mothers and fathers, teachers and
pastors cannot be happier than when they see those in their care loving and
tending each other
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We imitate J most perfectly then by loving one
another
CONCLUSION ++++++++++++++++++++++++++
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Let 3 reasons then motivate our loving and
reaching out to others
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That we are living the very life of the Trinity
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That we are pleasing God by our actions
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That we are transforming ourselves and others by
our actions
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