Dail Mass Gospel Reflection

In one sense, Christianity is a religion of fulfillment (the Lord has come),
but in another sense, it is a religion of waiting,
for we expect the Second Coming of Jesus in the fullness of his power.
We wait and watch and keep vigil.

What we all know is that great things take time.
When a kid comes to an artist’s studio to apprentice,
he has to submit to a long and difficult discipline;
when a young man enters a monastery or a seminary, he has to do a lot of waiting;
when a woman becomes pregnant, she has to wait nine long months before the baby is ready;
when a gardener works, he waits and watches and cultivates;
when an author writes a book, he has to let it come on its
own terms and in its own time.

"How long does this analysis take?" a woman asked Carl Jung. He replied,
"Just as long as it takes."
Gestation, growth.
So we endure the harsh and the sweet processes that make growth possible.

+++Jesus said to his disciples:
“Peace I leave with you; my peace I give to you.
Not as the world gives do I give it to you.
Do not let your hearts be troubled or afraid.
You heard me tell you,
‘I am going away and I will come back to you.’
If you loved me,
you would rejoice that I am going to the Father;
for the Father is greater than I.
And now I have told you this before it happens,
so that when it happens you may believe.
I will no longer speak much with you,
for the ruler of the world is coming.
He has no power over me,
but the world must know that I love the Father
and that I do just as the Father has commanded me.”+++

Carl Jung was a nut, and so is Barron for quoting him (and so are those who continue to daily pimp Barron's trash):

However, he believed in a Quaternity, the fourth person being the principle of evil. Without the opposition of satan, who is one of God's sons, the Trinity would have remained a unity. In Jungian terms without the opposition of the shadow or the fourth person, there would be no psychic development and no actualisation of the self. Jung came to believe that Mary became the fourth person following her Assumption. She is the necessary feminine element, the opposition of the shadow.

His idea of wholeness means that God approves of evil. He wrote: "since I knew from experience that God was not offended by blasphemy, that on the contrary, he could encourage it, because he wished to evoke not only man's bright and positive side but also his darkness and ungodliness, God in his omniscience arranged everything so that Adam and Eve would sin. God intended them to sin."

Carl Jung's Journey from God

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