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A Spirituality for Christmas?

December 22, 2006 · Print This Article

Below are some of the quotes from Gustavo Gutierez I will be using in my elective/chat at NCYC in Perth. Worth a ponder this Chrissy too. Have a great Christmas break.
May the peace of Christ disturb you this Christmas.
Age

“To place oneself in the kingdom means to participate in the struggle for liberation of those oppressed by others….. If this option seems to separate them from the Christian community, it is because many Christians, intent on domesticating the Good News, see them as wayward and perhaps even dangerous. If they are not always able to express in appropriate terms the profound reasons for their commitment, it is because the theology in which they were formed - and which they share with other Christians - has not produced the categories necessary to express this option, which seeks to respond creatively to the new demands of the Gospel and the oppressed…..

But theological categories are not enough. We need a vital attitude, all embracing and synthesizing, informing the totality as well as every detail of our lives; we need a “Spirituality.” Spirituality, in the strict and profound sense of the word is dominion of the spirit. If “the truth will set you free” (Jn 8:32), and the Spirit “will guide you into all truth” (Jn 16:13) and will lead us to complete freedom….. the freedom to love and enter into communion with God and with others. It will lead us along the path of liberation because “where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty” (2Cor 3:17)

“A spirituality is a concrete manner, inspired by the Spirit, of living the Gospel; it is a definite way of living “before the Lord,” in solidarity with human beings, “with the Lord,” and before human beings. It arises from an intense spiritual experience, which is later explicated and witnessed to….. A spirituality means a reordering of the great axes of the Christian life in terms of this contemporary experience….. ,in bringing to surface unknown or forgotten aspects of the Christian life, and above all, in the way in which these things are converted into life, prayer, commitment, and action.”

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2 Responses to “A Spirituality for Christmas?”

  1. darren on December 22nd, 2006 2:06 pm

    Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men.
    Martin Luther King Jr., Strength to Love, 1963

    A nation that continues year after year to spend more money on military defense than on programs of social uplift is approaching spiritual doom.
    Martin Luther King, Jr.

    Human salvation lies in the hands of the creatively maladjusted.
    Martin Luther King, Jr.

  2. Age on December 22nd, 2006 7:03 pm

    I like. “guided missiles an misguided men” :)
    Type “Martin Luther King” in the search box for a few more favs of mine.

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