from New York Magazine
Phrases worth pondering this week:
Relevance, Relationships, and Responsiveness.
historically aligned
cognitive dissonance
malleable minds
Quote for the week
We need to be aware of this dynamic, because increasingly, our society and culture is becoming more and more psychopathic. It is expressed in the way that people now feel that they a right to be angry and abusive. It is expressed in our culture when people refuse to take responsibility for their actions, or stop caring about how their actions may affect those around them. It is expressed when the powerful think that the ends justify the means, or that something is alright so long as you can get away with it. It is expressed in our national desire for freedom without responsibility, for total individualism or autonomy, despite the way such autonomy may hurt others.
The need for shepherds, expressed by the prophets, is a metaphor in many ways for the fact that we need limits, and we need to learn obedience. We need boundaries and we need accountability. We cannot redefine truth to suit our own human experiences. We have to be subject to higher truths and shape and mold our lives according to forces outside of ourselves, rather than trying to change the world to suit our tastes and our desires.
-Fr. Timothy Heines, excerpt from Homily, July 23, 2006
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