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Thoughts from the Vine lunch


(1) There is no reason that Holiness cannot be the next worldwide revolution. St. Francis was one man whose holiness inspired a whole continent. What could God do with a small group of men and women today who wholeheartedly abandoned themselves to His will in a similar spirit?

(2) The only thing standing between myself and holiness is myself. But I can never overcome myself; after all, I know all my own moves ...Miserable one that I am! Who will deliver me from this mortal body? [Rom 7:15-24]

But what if the antagonist-self, faced not protagonist-self, but Christ? What if I crucified myself with Christ so that it was no longer I, but Christ in me? [Gal 2:19-20]

Surely He who has conquered and overcome the world [Jn 16:33] can conquer antagonist-me.

So, Foolish Self, pick up your cross and follow Him whose victory over sin has swallowed up death and gives the victory to us [1 Cor 15:54-57] victory over self, victory over the world, and whose reward is Holy Beatitude in heaven for eternity.

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