Mgr Burke offers a profound meditation upon the role of the feminine and
of gift of self in reaching human fulfilment.
Not exact matches
Market to that consumer mindset by capitalizing on the idea
of self -
gifting.
I do not disagree completely with the naysayers who call this
self - aggrandizing or counter to the selfless and festive nature
of holiday
gift giving.
Ask for help, in part because you realize the person who provides you with that help will automatically feel greater
self - respect,
self - esteem, and
self - worth, because they've received one
of the greatest
gifts of all: knowing they made a difference in another person's life.
While we tend to think that smarts equals IQ, Harvard research shows there are actually six other types
of intelligence, including everything from the «bodily kinesthetic intelligence»
of gifted athletes and dancers to the «intrapersonal intelligence» that gives us the
self - knowledge to understand and manage our own feelings, preferences, and quirks.
It is certainly possible that the unethical favours at the expense
of of a third party might just be construed as the cost
of gifts in the eyes
of the giver and the receiver and hence become indistinguishable from other forms
of self - interest.»
Giving yourself small
gifts will make you proud
of yourself, increase your
self - esteem and therefore, stay positive.
Best known is his depiction
of the sinner as incurvatus in se, «curved in on
self»: Our nature, by the corruption
of the first sin, is so deeply curved in on itself that it not only bends the best
gifts of God towards itself and enjoys them (as is plain in the works - righteous and hypocrites), or rather even uses God himself in order to attain these
gifts, but it also fails to realize that it so wickedly, curvedly, and viciously seeks all things, even God, for its own sake.
Again, from Scruton: «[A] vow is a
self - dedication, a
gift of oneself» — open - ended in its commitment to a shared destiny between parties.
If she (and you and I for that matter) understood the love within the Most Holy Trinity and how that love is life - giving, one can begin to understand what love is, the
gift of self involved, I do not believe she could remain in her present position.
For Griffiths, the Church is a place, through the sacraments and the works
of mercy, for learning the practices
of receptivity and
gifting, and thereby
of conformity to Christ's
self - giving love.
In Ephesians the bible says,» by grace you have been saved, through faith, and this not
of your
self, it is a
gift from God, not by works so no one will boast.»
If one is a Catholic Christian in particular, one can look at Christ's body on the cross to know the kind
of self -
gift you and I are called to.
Yes, we have a human nature with a desire for s * x. However, we also have the
gift of self control, which most people today don't use anymore.
The shift in our understanding
of sex from a sacramental and life - changing encounter to the thing you do with your friends when you're bored has made all
of our relationships shallower and made each
of us less capable
of the profound
gift of self on which marriage is founded.
To Jefferson, the
self - evident truth
of equality was an unearned
gift of the Creator to the nation's citizens that must be respected but that need not apply to slaves in bondage or to native savages.
In speaking
of the process
of constant
self - creation,
of our continuing need to «reconceive ourselves» — a
gift of the Bard to humans — he is echoing phrases that sprout from the lips
of those who insist on a «multiplicity
of subjective positions,» «potential identities,» and the like.
I was given a
gift of being completely humbled by my destructive lifestyle and strong
self will.
From these diverse stories
of «thinking Christians» a common theme emerges: the search for truth demands (to paraphrase contributor Kathryn Wiegand) a willingness to die to
self» even to the hopes bequeathed by one's most cherished intellectual
gifts» in order to be reborn in Christ.
Joyce Meyer: a supremely
gifted, faithful and passionate preacher
of the word, or a proponent
of a prosperity - gospel message and teacher
of self - help?
The conjugal act, profoundly unitive, isa procreative kind
of act, and the
gift of the child is to be profoundly linked to the spouses» incarnate
gift of self in that conjugal, not merely copulatory, act.
Eve teaches Adam how to go out
of himself and thus find himself: how to become a loving
gift of self.
It can not force couples into the heights
of self - giving, but it can encourage them to be on the trajectory
of self -
gift.
Nowhere is this more evident than in the punishment meted out after the Fall, that place where the nakedness which once bespoke trust and mutual
self -
gift now becomes an object
of shame and concealment.
Sarah Bessey makes me want to get to know Jesus all over again, but this time specifically through my womanly flesh, embodied as Christ
self was embodied, engaging God with the glorious
gift of BEING a woman rather than in spite
of it.
What is left out is not the pleasure, not the togetherness, but an openness to something beyond the couple that places them on the trajectory
of self -
gift, rather than on the trajectory
of self - indulgence.
What is the role
of self - examination and
of affirmation from others in discovering spiritual
gifts?
They place individuals on the trajectory
of self - indulgence, not
of self -
gift.
This how John Paul consistently maintained that through her
gift of self, Eve teaches Adam how humanity is to find its fullest realization.
Priestly celibacy, then, is the
gift of self in and with Christ to his Church and expresses the priest's service to the Church in and with the Lord.»
Jesus also makes it possible for us to give a true
gift of self - by his redemption he heals and elevates our natures.
Although it took the sensitivity
of John Paul II to draw out the role
of woman here more explicitly, this is nonetheless the key anthropological insight
of the Second Vatican Council: the human person has been created so as to become a
gift of self.
A critical step into participatory theonomy needs to be taken: we can only be genuinely free and happy if we give the
gift of self to others.
It takes an adult
self - consciousness — the experience
of an adult living and trying to believe but knowing doubt, trying to do the right thing but knowing failure, trying to be confident but sensing despair — to also know that there is a part
of God that helps us through those obstacles, a part which is different from God's love or Christ's
gift of salvation.
-- Those that need «power» (reaffirmation
of their personal
self - worth among billions
of humans) go to a preacher that preaches the Baptism
of the Holy Spirit, special «
gifts of the spirit» just for the unique you, a purpose - driven life, or a progressive gospel that is «the answer for our times».
His profound knowledge
of ancient Judaism, his deep insight into the subject matter, above all, perhaps, his
gift of self - expression - all this combines to make the careful reading
of this work an unforgettable experience.
The author explores the notions
of feelings, virtue, shame, loyalty and forgiveness, as well as the
gift of self and the meaning
of the body.
If the radical
self - assertion which makes it impossible for man to achieve the authentic life
of self - commitment is identical with sin, it must obviously be possible for man to understand his existence altogether as a
gift of God.
Further, they should be able to understand the loving and unique significance
of conjugal intercourse, which lies not mainly in the pleasure it may give the spouses, but in the unparalleled way by which it expresses the total and exclusive
self -
gift they made to one another in marrying.
So the marriage contract or covenant means that each spouse undertakes to give his or her own
self, and each undertakes to accept the
self -
gift of the other, as she or he actually is.
Christians believe that in Jesus who is called the Christ God's
gift of self to the universe is bestowed definitively and irreversibly.
But the cosmos in its finitude is unable to receive the boundlessness
of God's
self gift in one instant.
The significant aspect is the personal dimension: God in
self - giving, in
self - relating to the world, placed himself in a state
of gift.
The special logic
of this theory, after all, is that the Christian philosopher — having surmounted the «aesthetic,» «ethical,» and even in a sense «religious» stages
of human existence — is uniquely able to enact a return, back to the things
of earth, back to finitude, back to the aesthetic; having found the highest rationality
of being in God's kenosis — His
self - outpouring — in the Incarnation, the Christian philosopher is reconciled to the particularity
of flesh and form, recognizes all
of creation as a purely gratuitous
gift of a God
of infinite love, and is able to rejoice in the levity
of a world created and redeemed purely out
of God's «pleasure.»
The paradox is that the autonomy
of man's free response is God's
gift of self to man.
He states that true love means we must have control over our feelings, and that eros can only be raised to a
gift of self if a man respects the dignity
of woman.
Modesty acknowledges that we are able to make a complete
gift of self and that we are all worthy
of dignity.
Revelation is the
self -
gift of the promising God to the universe.
We turn now to an examination
of the historical situation through which God's revelatory
self -
gift to the world is mediated.
In this way, God through his own act
of self - giving constitutes man whose genuine free response completes God's
gift.