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St. Gabriel and All Angels
 
The Liberal Catholic Church in Fairfield, Iowa

Trinity 7 - Purity: a day of devotion to the Holy Spirit

The topic today is purity:

  • Both the Epistle and Gospel speak of
  • Keeping oneself pure - in heart and mind.
  • Purified through the life revealed by Christ:
  • Sanctified and blessed by the Holy Father
  • And by trust in the living Trinity

Keep our hearts unspotted from the world:

  • The Holy Spirit, being Divine, is Truth
  • Divine Truth is synonymous with Love.
  • When we connect with ourselves and others
  • With love and honesty, with simplicity,
  • Innocence and naturalness - 
  • We are manifesting purity & expressing the Divine
  • And not our small self, our ego

That Holy Spirit:

  • Is always gently nudging us
  • To honor and accept the divinity 
  • Operating within ourselves and
  • Within each person and situation

Like to be able to give you a formula for purity

  • But it’s different for each of us
  • We each create our own world and the
  • Temptations and challenges we have to face.

A life of purity can be lived in the world

  • Because all that is in the world: 
  • Is, in fact, not different from that Pure Life Divine

We have to find our own personal way:

  • to use the world, to see the people and situations as
  • Opportunities to purify our heart and mind
  • So we see behind the veil the world/ego presents
  • To find the fullness of the Divine Trinity everywhere

The Good Samaritan kept coming up while preparing:

  • Purity is associated with not judging others
  • If we judge others by looks or behavior or politics, or anything really,
  • We are like the people in the Good Samaritan who
  • Left the naked and beaten man on the other side
  • Because he was not of their tribe, or a different color
  • Or some other factor with which they did not agree.
  • But the Samaritan saw only a man beaten and naked
  • Who needed help. In helping he kept his heart
  • Pure from the feelings the others used to justify
  • Their inaction.

Eucharist - mystical vehicle for us to hone our attention: 

  • to acknowledge, renew & enliven our 
  • connection with the Supreme Lord through Christ.
  • A connection that is never lost – 
  • Simply lost track of in the whirlwinds of life