“You rehearse your brother’s
trespasses, and forget about your own.”
-St. Barsanuphius
For Reflection:
What two insights does this saint give us about sabotaging our forgiveness efforts? Do I do these? Today, I will make a conscious effort to stop the thought processes leading to these ends whenever my offender comes to mind.
(Tomorrow’s Grace Line gives more help as well.)
Chapter One Page 10 Despite the fact that Vatican II laid it down that for all men and women “action is subordinated to contemplation”, rare is the seminary that pays much attention to the latter, to the “one thing”. The results of this enormous vacuum (which seems to worry almost no one in officialdom–the Popes are notable exceptions: they do worry about it) are predictable and obvious. Everywhere I meet sincere people who are hungering for something deeper than what they hear in the Sunday homily. Over and over men and women tell me that they never hear of contemplation in their parish churches and rarely in retreats.
