Category: Focus Talks
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GOD’S PERMISSIVE WILL
SEEKING AND FULFILLING God’s indicative will in our lives—his commandments, his inspirations, and the normal responsibilities that we have simply because we are members of a family, a workplace, a community, and a society—is our sure path to spiritual growth. It unites us to Christ, who made his Father’s will the overarching rule of his…
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GOD’S INDICATIVE WILL
How do I know what is God’s will for me? JESUS IS THE centre of every authentically Christian life. Loving God with all our heart, soul, mind, and strength means loving Jesus more and more and more, because Jesus is God-become-man, God-with-us. And loving Jesus means following him, learning from him, obeying him, becoming more…
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SIMPLICITY
St Thomas Aquinas is known for his profound doctrine about the nature of God. For him, what lies at the heart of the nature of God is simplicity. This means that in God there are no parts, no change, no confusion. For us humans, the call to holiness involves a growth towards simplicity in our…
