Matt Fradd is helping Fr. Jason rescue orphans in Urkaine. Find out more here and financially support the mission. https://pintswithaquinas.com/ukraine
\n\nTiredness and Hyperactivity/Hyperpassivity. I-tiredness vs. we-tiredness. I am not tired \u201cof you\u201d but \u201cwith you.\u201d God sanctifies space: Garden of Eden. God sanctifies time: Sabbath rest. Sabbath is the rest from work, that then enables us to offer worship.
\n\nLent: glorified self-improvement vs charity towards our neighbor.
\n\nHans Urs von Balthasar (Heart of the World): Obedience to the church means we do it NOW, within the framework of the Church. Sabbath day is a day of not-to, a day free of all in-order-to. But you have to cut off work. Saturday night is crucial for Sunday mornings\u2019 grace. Vespers. Lord\u2019s Day. etc.
\n\n\u201cGod\u2019s paradise is a utilitarian\u2019s Hell.\u201d
\n\nShared Prayer, Mission, Fellowship, Learning. From this shared life, stuff will just start. It will just start happening. You don\u2019t need anything else other than time and regularity. So can you create a space where these things just happen and when they do happen, can you cultivate these things?
\n\nLuke\u2019s one thing he would change about his Young Adult Ministry: the Core Team happened and it was \u201cYou need to just be friends and pray together.\u201d Fellowship, friendship, needs to precede Mission. Mission brings us together, as a friendship rooted in a common good. But if the communion doesn\u2019t happen, if friendships are not actually made, then the mission becomes a driver to hyperactivity and loses its connection to actual mission. It\u2019s externalized because it hasn\u2019t made friends yet.
\n\nSometimes it fails because of God. Sometimes it fails because of us.
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