BOTTOM UP, TOP DOWN – January 9, 2011
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Dear People Whom God Loves, “Bottom up” means gaining knowledge through experience. This brings to mind the saying of St. Thomas Aquinas: “There is nothing in our mind that was not first in our senses. In other words we gain knowledge by reflecting on what we have experienced.” “Top down” means drawing conclusions from the […]
BOTTOM UP TOP DOWN II – January, 16, 2011
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Dear People Whom God Loves, More and more people had this experience. We call this their experience of Jesus’ resurrection. Please note that Jesus’ resurrection was not a coming back to life as we know it in this world. If this were true, then Jesus would have had to die again. In this contact with […]
GOD IS LOVE– VI December 26, 2010
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Dear People Whom God Loves, GOD IS LOVE– VI Let us now look at how fear negatively impacts our spiritual journey of growing in love. Let us suppose that we do good things—including religious good things—because we are afraid of going to hell. Then we are not doing them because they are good and loving […]
SOME THOUGHTS ABOUT GAY MARRIAGE – Oct. 31, 2010
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Dear People Whom God Loves, SOME THOUGHTS ABOUT GAY MARRIAGE Recently, the Catholic bishops of Minnesota sent DVD’s about gay marriage to Catholics throughout our state. This is an issue that will not go away soon. It touches something deep inside of us. This means that we will have strong emotional reactions regardless of which […]
GOD’S INTERACTION WITH THE WORLD – XIV June 20, 2010
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Dear People Whom God Loves, GOD’S INTERACTION WITH THE WORLD – XIV I see prayer as fundamentally aligning our human will with God’s will. As we surrender our will to God’s will, there will always be at least a gradual change in us. Prayer is concerned with changing us…not in changing God. I see that […]
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