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To: A CA Guy

"We are not worthy to receive you, but only say the word and we will be healed!"

Or, as it was before the modernists ripped its guts out, "Lord, I am not worthy that You should come under my roof; but only say the word and my spirit shall be healed."


64 posted on 09/25/2006 7:10:31 PM PDT by dsc
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To: dsc
I was Paraphrasing a scripture for the concept that no matter what the 7 deadly sins are, or any sin for that matter, man is susceptible due to a sin nature and must rely on God for everything because NOTHING about us is worthy to enter the Kingdom of Heaven on our own merits.

Lord I am not worthy, but only say the word and I shall be healed.

We're not worthy ... so just accept it In the true Christian vision of God's love, the idea of worthiness loses its significance. Revelation of the mercy of God makes the whole problem of unworthiness almost laughable: the discovery that worthiness is of no special consequence (since no one could ever, by himself, be strictly worthy to be loved with such a love) is a true liberation of the spirit. And until this discovery is made, until this liberation has been brought about by the divine mercy, man is imprisoned in hate.

Thomas Merton, from New Seeds of Contemplation, chapter 10

65 posted on 09/25/2006 7:21:16 PM PDT by A CA Guy (God Bless America, God bless and keep safe our fighting men and women.)
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To: dsc

I believe that translation is coming back!


72 posted on 09/25/2006 9:36:02 PM PDT by Salvation (†With God all things are possible.†)
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