{"id":31601,"date":"2014-10-05T22:09:08","date_gmt":"2014-10-06T02:09:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/?p=31601"},"modified":"2014-10-05T22:26:09","modified_gmt":"2014-10-06T02:26:09","slug":"all-i-have-is-what-i-love","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2014\/10\/all-i-have-is-what-i-love\/","title":{"rendered":"All I have is what I love"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It is said that one of our late Benedictine abbesses said, &#8220;All I have is what I love!&#8221; This is what learned in homily today at Vespers.<\/p>\n<p>A true judgment of man&#8217;s spirit and humanity. It is a touchstone in understanding who each of us is before God and others. The question&#8221; What do I love?&#8221; needs to be asked and answered daily. In fact, that is what happens in the daily Ignatian Examen. The discovery in answering this question is a work.<\/p>\n<div>\n<div>But as fragile people we are easily distracted; we can fool ourselves by making excuses, and rationales get in the way. Still, &#8220;What do I love&#8221; requires\u00a0a concrete answer. What specifically do I love? Deeper down, a love holds my heart?<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div>What stands out in what St Paul said today in his Letter to the Philippians:<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\">Have no anxiety at all, but in everything,<br \/>\nby prayer and petition, with thanksgiving,<br \/>\nmake your requests known to God.<br \/>\nThen the peace of God that surpasses all understanding<br \/>\nwill guard your hearts and minds in Christ Jesus.Finally, brothers and sisters,<br \/>\nwhatever is true, whatever is honorable,<br \/>\nwhatever is just, whatever is pure,<br \/>\nwhatever is lovely, whatever is gracious,<br \/>\nif there is any excellence<br \/>\nand if there is anything worthy of praise,<br \/>\nthink about these things.<br \/>\nKeep on doing what you have learned and received<br \/>\nand heard and seen in me.<br \/>\nThen the God of peace will be with you.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>St Paul&#8217;s letter can remain in the abstract and useless without going deeper in ascertaining the meaning of the various points the Apostle raises viz. our experience. Hence, we have to ask: What do I think is true? What is does it means to act honorably? What difference does purity make? What does the word gracious mean to mean?<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>It seems that this matter one of several\u00a0keys for the spiritual life, and not mere word-smithing and academic argumentation. What it does necessitate, I have learned, is a disciplined focus of\u00a0mind and heart in working with divine revelation.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It is said that one of our late Benedictine abbesses said, &#8220;All I have is what I love!&#8221; This is what learned in homily today at Vespers. A true judgment of man&#8217;s spirit and humanity. It is a touchstone in understanding who each of us is before God and others. The question&#8221; What do I &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2014\/10\/all-i-have-is-what-i-love\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">All I have is what I love<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[2036,1798],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31601"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31601"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31601\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31603,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31601\/revisions\/31603"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31601"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31601"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31601"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}