Silent Servants...

Silent Servants...

... of the Used, Abused, and Utterly Screwed Up.

A Secular Franciscan looks at the world...
with a more jaundiced eye than ever...
and lots of ellipses for you to fill in the missing text...
(with thanks to Thomas S. Klise for the title)



Saturday, June 04, 2011

Most people


may have to rely on the Holy Spirit as their personal spiritual director.

Pope Benedict XVI recommends spiritual direction for everyone

Otherwise, our spiritual direction comes from homilies and personal study and enrichment. There aren't enough people around to provide personal spiritual direction for people...


2 comments:

Joel A. Shaver said...

...But do you suppose we can trust anything as uncontrollable as the Holy Spirit? Doesn't seem safe!

James said...

Absolutely not! I mean, we might start doing something extremist then, like feeding the hungry, clothing the naked, giving shelter to the homeless. Where would that take us?