2020, Serial No. 00173, Side C
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The talk explores themes of loving one's neighbor, functioning within a community, exhibiting kindness, and the importance of attitude in interpersonal relationships. Elements of humor and practical examples are interspersed to delineate how virtues can be lived out within a community setting. Key thoughts include patient interaction, respecting individual weak points, and promoting a community akin to a small, tightly-knit family. The narrative describes various real-life incidents to underline the importance of generosity and personal attitudes in forming strong communal bonds.
- The Lord's Prayer is used to open the discussion.
- St. Paul's teachings on love and community are referenced as motivational guides for the discussed ideals.
- G.K. Chesterton is quoted to highlight the intrinsic challenge of loving neighbors who could also be considered adversaries.
In essence, the speaker underscores the need for fostering love and kindness within communities, supported by Christian doctrinal philosophies and a humorous yet practical approach to daily social interactions.
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Speaker: Mother Angela Winsome
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Mar. 2-6, 2020
I'm preaching to everyone, let's start with a little prayer. Our Father, who art in heaven, hallowed be thy name. Thy kingdom come, thy will be done, on earth as it is in heaven. Give us this day our daily bread, and forgive us our trespasses, as we forgive those who trespass against us. And lead us not into temptation, In the last session we considered life-forms from the perspective of our life-forms. In this day, we should consume the thing of seeking trust and love by reflecting upon love for our neighbours and the fictional, outrageous individual. They should each try to be the first to show respect for the other, supporting with the greatest patience one another's weaknesses of body or behavior.
[01:13]
No one is to presume what you judge is better than himself, but instead, what you judge is better than someone else. To their fellow monks, they show the pure love of brothers. but through love, the service of one another, for the whole law is fulfilled in one word, you shall love your neighbour as yourself. Life in the community. No one did his ideas on the contrast of community and love for one another in talks to the oratory. He was nearly 18 years old when he sent the following. I had never liked a large oratory. Twelve, wording three, has been the limit of my ambition. One cannot love many at one time. One cannot really have many friends. An oratory is a family and a home, a domestic circle, as the words imply, is rounded and rounded.
[02:18]
A family can be counted. They're only in the national order are to be found the familiar faces of which our war speaks. A large body can hardly help breaking from its own weight. We should, in all combinational matters, try to move as one minds. Avoid, if possible, going by majorities. Keep tender of the fathers who form a minority. while, on the other hand, single fathers should not inconsiderately take advantage of the tenderness exercised towards them, only by a tradition such as this, only by a heavy gift of feeling in those alacrational parts which the law of the regions necessarily involves, only by a moral constitution in its members, both tidy and elastic, that our oratory would thrive. In other words, he's a small, he's a family, and he's not biased towards geography, let alone trying to come to a consensus.
[03:30]
That's the idea of a happy family community. One of the more reason why it's crucial that those who engage in the community live by rights values. No one describes what he considers as the rights values. to make us passionate and cautious, to be fair in discussions, to give proof we can successfully present this due weight, candidly to make those which may change against our own theory, To be willing to be ignorant of time, to commit to difficulties and patiently and uniquely proceed, waiting for further light, is the very temper which Christianity gets formed as the perfection of our moral character. But living together isn't just a matter of values. We have to love one another. No one uses the cargo of Saint Paul who loves his companions.
[04:36]
As he said, he who had the constant contemplation of his Lord and Saviour, and had this befall him with his bodily eyes, was nevertheless unsusceptible of the affections of human nature and the influences of the external world, and is in no stranger to that contemplation. March's veterans were not only for Jesus' sake, to use his own expression, but for their own sake also. So what are the characteristics of a post-community membership? According to Nolan, all other people in his oratory would have a good sense of humour, what he called a good deal of fun in those. and he even knew that he would like to have a regular food spinach to keep up their spirit.
[05:37]
And he put it, that if we have not spirit, it will be like total fear with the pork out. Even today, we would wish to have companions with us in the monastery, the equivalent of an illusory tree, that would be cheerful and endearing in their personalities. True story. Some years ago in our former convent, a sister heard the re-election doorbell ring, indicating that a visitor had arrived. As she came along the coaster, she witnessed an older sister open the front door, take one look at the visitor, then slam the door in the visitor's face shut and walk away. The witness rushed to the door and opened it to see a slightly amused looking, polycabbage-ish, modern superior from another order, who had been expected. So, cringing with embarrassment and proliferating with apologies, her sister explained that the third sister who had slammed the door in a limiting manner of spate was a little unusual.
[06:51]
Don't feel that you're not at fault, be sure that it's the other. There's one in every condom. Well, that's the problem with our sister. We seem to have rather a lot of those. And that's true, that was really just life. I'm sure it had a lot to do with it. There are other qualities that we want to see in others and cultivate in ourselves for good community living. Here is one of the characteristics. Timeless. Timeless is a language the mute can speak and the hearing impaired can hear and understand. I'll repeat that. Kindness is a language the mute can speak, and the hearing-impaired can hear and understand. All of us have opportunities to be kind, even in the midst of pressure and challenges.
[07:58]
A powerful illness, a person who became ill only a few days after arriving at no one's house recalled, Every day, in spite of countless other engagements, Newman found time to sit by my bedside as he liked me by his conversation. To be kind, we need to be aware of our neighbours. It was said of Newman that paternal kindness was to be seen on the occasions in Birmingham when he noticed that two small boys who had completed their hour of watching from 3am to 4am during a night watch before the altar of the Code on a holy Thursday night, remained there for another hour because the watchers for that hour had not arrived. The two boys, unaware of Nuno's presence, eventually got back to the faculty to find him waiting for them.
[09:02]
He not only praised them for the way they had saved the two hours instead of one, but he also fed them off with sick instructions that they must be given a good breakfast with sensitive traditional popcorn buns. Pregnancy is the oil that takes the friction out of life. Kind words should be followed up by kind actions. Generosity. There is a story of a priest who got up one Sunday and announced to his parish, I have good news and bad news. The good news is we have enough money to pay for our new building program. The bad news is the money is still out there in your pocket Many of the generosity to others was immense throughout his life.
[10:06]
Even though he was very poor in his early years as a Catholic, he had no receipts for any money, yet one cent only of which could be spent, and soon went out of need of it. He relished the need to give £5 or £10 to a person without the discretion of knowing what was in the packet. The giving was discreet, and his main concern was how much he could give them. He saw it as a privilege to give. When someone criticised giving a contribution towards a subscription for people going to Australia, he responded Who does he think they won't have to advertise when they are landed? After his death, the local newspaper reported, the poor villagers of Redlaw, that was the area of Birmingham where he lived, knew him not merely by his kind words, but by his kindly actions.
[11:10]
Every winter, he gave to the poor sufficient coal to help them through the cold day and night. And when the season was more than useful for beer, he doubled the amount. We can be generous, not only in our actions, but in all our responses. Why, I'm not coronavirus, but I've got no reactions. Excuse me. And then she said, everyone sneeze, cough, whatever, and they're being like, they're talking to you, pick up the words, get away! I haven't. Hastings. There was a woman who wished to receive instruction in the Catholic faith, but was unable to pick a firm date, and had to wait for an opportunity to visit Newland in secret. Nobody appreciated her difficult situation, and remained at home for many weeks, so that she would not run the risk of being out when she called.
[12:18]
She refused to be distracted by those around her, but she was overdoing it past her appeal, and she came out into the fine summer air. His patience was rewarded when a woman was finally able to come to him, was instructed and retrieved into the Roman Catholic Church. He returned to her home country and about three months later, Newman received a telegram telling him that he had died unexpectedly in childbirth. He viewed the injustice as a spiritual lesson to those who had been pushed into staying at home for so long. Whereas the response was motivated by less compassion for that lady and her difficulty. Conference and the readers showed him as his most compassionate, as always it was, divine respect in the face of both suffering and infinite courage to take up their cause.
[13:24]
To one version of his offerings he wrote, Hope starts, that he will be supported through everything. Recollect when God gives faith and strength, he triumphs them. He does not give them for nothing. or, as it were, for all alone, but for use. It is the solemn privilege of those who have not yet, that they have no suffering. A man of light at the tailgate. The future looks to his body again. Well, I see here that you weren't especially nice, but you weren't especially good either. If you can tell me one really good deed you've performed, I'll let you into heaven." The man replied, yes. It was at one time, when I was driving down the road, when I saw this big group of bikers, about 30 of them, sitting on this billboard.
[14:29]
Well, I couldn't sit idly by. I grabbed a tire lever out of the trunk, Walked right up to the leader of the gang, hit him on the head with a tire wheeler, and yelled at the rest of the bikers, Listen here, you bullies! You leave this poor defenseless woman alone! Get out of here before I teach you all a lesson! Wow! The tutors were clearly impressed. When did this happen? Oh, about five minutes ago. Hmm. I'll do something for others to come at a cost, but that should not be a chore. The narrow-minded are to be avoided. We need to put ourselves into the minds of others, as Newman describes it. Narrow minds have no power of throwing themselves into the minds of others. They are stiffened in one position, at the length of the body, protected to confinement.
[15:35]
They have already parceled out to their own satisfaction the cold-blooded knowledge. They have drawn their lines and traced their courses and given to each opinion, argument, principle and party its own locality. Ways to avoid being narrow-minded. Sister Mary, who worked as a disciple, was out on her rounds, visiting her loved patients, when she ran out of gas. As luck would have it, a gas station was on the next corner. She walked to the station to buy a gas can and buy gas. The attendant told her that the only gas can he owned had already been let out, but she could wait until it was returned. Since the lad was on the way to see a patient, she decided not to wait and walked back to her car. She looked for something in her car that she could fill the gap and spotted a bedpan to take to the patient.
[16:42]
Always responsible, she took the bedpan to the gas station, filled it with gas, and carried the full bedpan back to her car. As she was pouring the gas into her tank, two men watched from across the street. One of them turned to the other and said, I'm turning Catholic. God works in mysterious ways, and we mustn't confine him by our narrow-mindedness. Our common sense of ingenuity should be a desire for the best good of the other. With honouredness and peace for all, we should love our brother. But only in war. to their fellow monsters killing the pure love of brothers. To love our neighbor, we need to cultivate high stride qualities. We have to use a consulted head, a new comorbidity to you that you love one another.
[17:49]
As G.K. Teddison said, the viral tells us to love our neighbours and also to love our enemies, probably because they are generally the same people. But knowing the story of loving our neighbour is one thing, living it out in reality is quite another. Loving means putting others before ourselves. If we say we love Jesus, we must also love the Jesus we live alongside every day in the shape of our brother in community, our neighbours. Every day, we have opportunities to demonstrate our love for Jesus in our love for our neighbours. The wonderful sacrifices that we can make for our brethren In my dream world, I prefer not to imagine what life must have really been like for Jesus. Being with his intellectual gift and his apathy, accompanied by uneducated men, what would it have been like for him surrounded by fishermen, when perhaps he couldn't stand the smell of fish?
[19:03]
That is the mark Jesus showed to his brethren. They possibly may still sacrifice this too, risking their lives, and some of those lying martyrs' deaths. But perhaps for some of us, we are faced with the loneliest physical sacrifices of everyday, ordinary living and loving. But how am I to write my tongue and refrain from such sarcastic remarks, clinging with you, or unkind criticism, particularly when faced with tempting provocation, that did not on my neighbours. The time when I'm absolutely exhausted and just wanted an early night but know that there's someone else having to do it or washing up duty. The time when there's one stale piece of bread left beside a new loaf and knowing that if I take from the bread loaf, someone else will have to eat the whole dry crust. These are all occasions, every day, when I can demonstrate love for my neighbour.
[20:10]
Vows of poverty, obedience, diversion of life, mean little without showing love for the brethren to whom I am committed in community. In a community, the tender terms of it should mean just that, a fairest form of God, whom I love in a Godly manner. Sadly, though I joyous from this agreement, tell me those critical times we all know disconcerted perversions existed, yet we should be able to recognise their dispositions, mourn after their thoughts, soothe their troubled spirits, and think in love to magnify their virtues. No two dispositions are the same. Not when our neighbour looks this easy, it can look perfect. These two would probably feel the same about us. Yet our life here is a separation from life together for eternity.
[21:14]
How then, do we love our neighbour? Perhaps the best way of defining what is an exuberant attitude of heart towards our neighbour is to ask the question, what would Jesus do? Attitude of heart. An alarm rang on a resurgent call for support, and as a result, decided that things needed to change at home soon. When he got home, he told his wife, I want supper on the table each evening when I get home from work. I want you to run me a hot bath and scrub my back. And I want you to turn up the sheets, oil the bed, and lay out my pyjamas. And in the morning, his lover was going to bottom my shirt and tie my tie. This replied his wife. He hummed it, said sir. We are free to choose our own attitude.
[22:18]
When things are not going well, we can still try to find the good in any situation. There is an Italian proverb, since the house is on fire, let us warm ourselves. Another saying depicts the English. A tea kettle, although up to its neck in hot water, continues to sing. I'll repeat both of those. The tongue and tongue is on fire, let us warm ourselves. I like doing this in English, obviously with a clean kettle. A clean kettle, although up to its neck in hot water, continues to sing. Our cognitive attitudes may not solve all our problems in our labour, but as the Bible warns us, do not be deceived, God is not mocked, for whatever a man shows, that he will also reap.
[23:23]
And let us not go merely in well-doing, for in due season we shall reap if we do not lose heart. Sometimes the change of attitude can have an unexpected result, changing our attitude. A person will nod her head on the bank window, count his change, and then goes back and says to the cashier, hey, you gave me the wrong change. You stepped away from the counter, Mr. Cashier. We just make corrections after you leave. There's nothing I can do about it now. That's the policy of business science. Well entertained, aren't you, Mr. Customer? Just thought you'd like to know that you paid me an extra 20. Bye! What's your thoughts? Because they lead to attitude.
[24:25]
What's your attitude? Because they lead to words. What's your words? Because they lead to actions. What's your actions? Because they lead to habits. What's your habits? Because they lead to character. What's your character? Because it determines your destiny. We cannot change others. We cannot change our brother. But we can change ourselves and how we respond to our brother. But that means we need to work on ourselves. Sow a thought as you reap an act. Sow an act and reap a habit. Sow a habit as you reap a character. Throw a tantrum as you reap a destiny. Let me invite you to hear me when I speak to you.
[25:32]
In a time when increase of love, today's theme has been about love, love of God, love of our neighbor. This time is about loving God more, because if we love God more, it will overthrow to loving our neighbor. My Lord, I believe and know and feel that you are the supreme fruit. I believe that beautiful and dismal creation, it is of no account compared with you. And therefore, since I perceive you to be so beautiful, I love you and desire to love you more and more. My God, You know how little I love you. I should not love you at all, except with your grace. Keep my whole being fixed on you. Let me never lose sight of you.
[26:34]
And that my love for you grows more and more every day. Amen. Any food? Any clothing? This is awful. I'm going to get you a private community meeting. Now the lunch, lunch, what is it? Lunch.
[27:32]
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