Tuesday 15 October 2024
St Teresa of Avila
Galatians 5:1-6. Let your loving kindness come to me, O Lord – Psalm 118(119):41, 43-45, 47-48. Luke 11:37-41.
It is faith, not the Law, that justifies us
Both Paul and Jesus call us to embrace the freedom gifted to us by our faith. It is a freedom that allows us to make up our own minds, to not blindly follow what others tell us is the right or only way to do things. I think ‘the church’ has forgotten this many times over the centuries. Persecuting heretics or those who interpret their faith differently has meant that the opportunity to build faith through debate was lost at these times. Even today, we run the risk of our community stagnating because we cannot change. Even a brief study of the history of the Catholic Church shows that the present structures (eg, celibate, male-only priests) are different from that of the early church and based on pre-Christian Roman ideals. I believe that we must educate ourselves, understand why and question these structures.
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