[Sundaycommunity] People Progress for November 22

[Catherine Walther]

Agreed, Lee. HIM?

On Tue, Nov 24, 2020 at 10:15 PM Lee Piepgrass <leepiepgrass at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Him?
>
> On Nov 24, 2020, at 4:52 AM, Brian Shaughnessy <bshaughn43 at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> 
> Yes, Lee, there are many dwelling places, EH?, and we would do well to
> just assume that we are all giving it our very best.
>
> We have been told to leave judgement to Him Who will really know what He
> is doing and I feel really good about that.  :)
>
>         Brian S.
>
> aptYLJC,Twbd,ttM
>
> On Mon, Nov 23, 2020 at 8:29 PM Lee Piepgrass <leepiepgrass at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> Well, my husband Don realized it. He always maintained, and I agree, that
>> it is much easier to push around people who feel not good enough and
>> somehow guilty (my attempt at language. He said it more eloquently) than
>> someone who is strong and confident and aware of his/ her worth. That stuff
>> came with the patriarchy. Don taught me not to say I am not worthy at Mass,
>> though I know others would feel differently, and I try to support everyone.
>> It certainly changes the way I feel at that time, though.  At my friend
>> Millie’s parish, St Frances Cabrini in St Paul, Minn., at communion the
>>  priest holds up the bread and says, in the time-honoured way, “This is the
>> Body of Christ” and the community responds, “And so are we all.” I like
>> that, but there are, after all, many dwelling places, eh?
>>
>> Lee
>>
>> On Nov 21, 2020, at 8:33 PM, joan pennings <j3pennings at yahoo.ca> wrote:
>>
>> 
>> Just wondering.
>>
>> If the Kingdom of God is here and now how can Jesus say, "My Kingdom is
>> not of this world?"
>> I think that this world for some people is a living hell and the only way
>> to survive it is not to re act, to keep one 's attention on the state of
>> meditation.
>> I think that it serves the patriarchy very well  to tell us that we are
>> sinners (and not Blessed 0nes as Matthew Fox has it), wretches, etc.
>> I see myself as an eternal spiritual being who has chosen to be mortal
>> for a short time and it sure feels like hell  at times and it appears to
>> be  getting worse because most of us  do not know what we are doing. And
>> for those Jesus asked his Father for forgiveness. He never asked for any of
>> us to be thrown out, not even the murderer on the cross. Yes, we have to
>> learn from our mistakes and live the consequences and that is our own
>> doing. There is no force that throws us out. How many of us realize this?
>> Joan
>>
>> On Saturday, November 21, 2020, 10:21:02 a.m. EST, Catherine Walther <
>> catherine.walther at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>
>> My take on it is that the Kindom of God is here and now. When we tend to
>> the poor, the hungry, the imprisoned or the sick etc. we enter into a
>> special joy, a new family of sorts, a love that is beyond our
>> understanding,  something that is not available to us when we only think of
>> ourselves.
>> Blessings, Catherine
>>
>> On Sat, Nov 21, 2020 at 4:51 AM Brian Shaughnessy <bshaughn43 at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>> Hi, Tedd Dillon.  I agree with your focus, which is our Christian focus,
>> on serving The Common Good and especially His poor.
>>
>> Here is my contribution to it.
>> ________
>>
>> THE BIG ELEPHANT IN OUR ROOM
>>
>> Once again, in this Sunday's Gospel, someone, here a lot of "goats", are
>> going into "eternal fire", into "eternal punishment".
>>
>> And will anyone here acknowledge that?
>>
>> Oct. 4th:  wretches "put to a miserable death" when the Landlord returns.
>> Oct. 11th:  the man without a wedding garment "thrown into the outer
>> darkness".
>> Nov. 8th:  the door being shut on the foolish bridesmaids with a refusal
>> to reopen.
>> Nov. 15th:  he who hid his talent out of fear thrown into the outer
>> darkness.
>>
>> We must embrace the Father and Jesus Christ in all Their attributes.
>>
>> Yes, Jesus is Love beyond our greatest imagining.  Yes, the same with His
>> Mercy.
>>
>> But we are not allowed to "cherry-pick".
>>
>> He is also Undeniable Severity in pursuit of the Perfect Justice that He
>> implements on our dying days.
>>
>> "Oh my Jesus, forgive us our sins, save us from the fires of Hell. Lead
>> all souls to Heaven, especially those in most need of Thy Mercy."
>>
>> But those who persist in Evil, n/w all the efforts He makes to call them
>> back to Him, far outworking the Devil, MUST be excluded from Heaven for all
>> eternity, or what kind of Heaven would it be?
>>
>>
>> --
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>> On Sat, Nov 21, 2020 at 1:47 AM John MacMillan <met191970 at gmail.com>
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