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| Anne-Marie | Monday, 14. September 2009, 05:44 |
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No idea whether those words were what you really meant  If we have to avoid even thinking about our Faith, because to do so would cause us to lose it... then we really are on very slippery ground indeed! Each Gospel is, quite understandably, different and emphasising different points. As humans, many of us will realise that if you take four different people (say doctor, lawyer, engineer, salesman) each will 'pick-up' on different aspects of a detailed discussion about another specialty. Each of them could be right in the detail they report. In those long-ago days when I was selling, I recall a series of drawings showing 'what the sales department understood to be ordered, what the engineers thought had been ordered, what the design department thought', and so on, concluding with what the customer actually wanted (a plank of wood with two ropes, to make a swing hanging from a tree branch)! Remembering that, I always stop and try to understand what things are really all about. It is all too easy for the theologian, in the calm of some study, centuries or millennia later, to see things very differently than those in the front line putting their lives on the line for a reason they may have understood all too clearly. Watch any courtroom drama... and then put yourself in the position of having to defend your actions when under attack with the way others, having no comprehension of how that affects thought and actions, think in the calm of a courtroom. The totally defensible can suddenly seem totally indefensible. If Our Lord or Our Lady appeared to you on the way to work this morning (or on the way home this evening), I think you'd see life totally differently from how anyone else would be capable of seeing life. Your transformation would be completely incomprehensible to everyone else. Yet, both you and they may believe 100% in our Faith.... |
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