FORTY-FIRST FORTY DAY FAST
FOR THE TRUTH OF GOSPEL NONVIOLENCE
JULY 1-AUGUST 9
FAST FOOD, Twenty-Seventh Helping
We are now called, not just to be members of an “assembly,” of believers, but members of the body of Christ.
Some of the implications of dying to ourselves in order to live as members of Christ’s body are: We are pledged to love one another, not just as we love ourselves, but as Christ has loved us and is loving now within us. As a consequence we can no more accept to hate or to kill another person, whether in retaliation or in self-defense (our excuses for capital punishment and for war) than we can accept to hate or to kill our own bodies or the body of Jesus Christ…We who have “died” to our isolated, individual existence in order to live as members of one body can never hate or kill other members of the body, or make a distinction between their good and our own; they are our own flesh.
NO POWER BUT LOVE
Rev. David Knight, PhD (Moral Theology, Catholic University), 60 years a Catholic priest, author of forty books on Catholic Faith and teaching. For further biographical information see, https://cdom.org/father-david-buell-maria-knight-obituary/
-Emmanuel Charles McCarthy
www.emmanuelcharlesmccarthy.org
“Nothing is better or more necessary than love.
God is pleased with nothing but love.
One act of pure love is more precious in the eyes of God
and of the soul, and more profitable to the Church,
than all the good works together,
though it may seem as nothing.”
– St. John of the Cross
God is pleased with nothing but love.
One act of pure love is more precious in the eyes of God
and of the soul, and more profitable to the Church,
than all the good works together,
though it may seem as nothing.”
– St. John of the Cross
