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love & living - part 1
I found an extensive passage of Merton's book Love and Living that I think will be very good for us all to look at together. So, I'm going to put it up here in pieces so we can reflect together on the implications. Very good, solid stuff. I have this idea that a lot of people may think Merton's stuff, and writing like this, isn't practical somehow. Well, this is nothing but practical for our everyday Christian lives.
How does man attain to a real union of love with his neighbor? Not merely by abstract agreement about truths concerning the end of all things and the afterlife, but by a realistic collaboration in the work of daily living in the world of hard facts in which man must work in order to eat. This is clearly shown in St. Paul's Epistles to the Thessalonians, among whom a certain type of apocalyptic thinking tended to substitute the speculations of pseudomysticism for the everyday task of Christians in his world (1 Thes. 4:11; 2 Thes. 3:6-15). We find here that Paul protests against a religious alienation which substitutes a mental life of religious ideas for a practical Christian life of love in the midst of everyday realities.
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