tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6668594987436792920.post138133201987922083..comments2023-07-05T08:17:21.505-04:00Comments on Getting to the Point: The Message of the GardenFr. Denis Lemieuxhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01049723287624178155noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6668594987436792920.post-55006034489023966702012-04-25T13:53:14.153-04:002012-04-25T13:53:14.153-04:00Sorry to be slow responding to this - I'm a bi...Sorry to be slow responding to this - I'm a bit swamped these days. I totally agree with what you say here (and good old St. Thomas, hurray!). It seems to me that the idea is out there somehow that if we obey the Church on these controverted matters, we are somehow violating our own consciences or surrendering the use of our intellect. This seems strange to me, somehow, this idea.<br />I guess it just doesn't occur to me that to trust the Church (and let's remember that on the controverted moral questions, the Church is simply repeating the teachings it has taught over a 2000 year period)and act in accordance with its teachings means that a)I shut off my brain or b)I am violating my inner soul. I guess where I am coming from is that I understand my relationship to the Church to be second only, and intimately bound up with, my relationship with Christ Himself. So... for me, every other relationship and choice is in fact subordinated first to Christ and then to the Church...<br />I don't know - I'm grappling for words to describe something that seems so clear to me. I, too, don't want to contribute to the division or offend anyone needlessly. Does that help at all?Fr. Denis Lemieuxhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01049723287624178155noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6668594987436792920.post-90247671549030626762012-04-21T13:32:48.140-04:002012-04-21T13:32:48.140-04:00Father Denis,
Please forgive me, I am really try...Father Denis,<br /> Please forgive me, I am really trying to get this, it is not my intension to be offensive or contribute to the division- I am really trying to get this-<br /> The obedience that Jesus models for us, calls us to....It is hard to understand. Looking for help, I read St Thomas...and what I understand him to say is that true obedience is a balance between the twin errors of defeat and excess-which are disobedience and false obedience ( only authority is my conscience verses only authority is my superior) So, don,t we need everything to help us to be obedient...the head and the body and our own souls? Can you help me with this?Catherinenoreply@blogger.com