11/8/10 cblog IF WE GROW IN ONE GIFT (VIRTUE), WE GROW IN ALL ; MONASTERY M: "Apostles said 'increase our faith"...its beautiful to see early christian fam..& how they grew..lord didn't give a how to do book..didn't even say there's 7 sacraments..peter a good organizer..paul later..bc wise & dedicated..writings of paul..he's appointing priests..presbyters, bishops..church is growing..its organized..even baptism..nowhere says baptize infants...early church just started doing it..st. august. 330ad says they must be doing it by faith..he develpd doctr. Of orig sin..later aquinas would modify it..vatican a little more..happend in faith..how do we increase in faith..we all struggle..history of the lord in our life..grow in one virtue..grow in all..if grow in patience..grow in forgiveness..tide at newport lifts all boats..plague in society today is pornograpgy..destroying individuals..focus elsewhere..charity..sacrifice for family..as they grow in charity, grow in purity,..if have hard time forgiving..dont get obsessed with it...focus elsewhere..if struggling..say, no I'm going to focus on diff virtue..today to be nourished..thank those before is..."
Titus 1:1-9 Paul, a slave of God and Apostle of Jesus Christ for the sake of the faith of God’s chosen ones and the recognition of religious truth in the hope of eternal life that God, who does not lie, promised before time began who indeed at the proper time revealed his word in the proclamation with which I was entrusted by the command of God our savior to Titus, my true child in our common faith grace and peace from God the Father and Christ Jesus our savior. For this reason I left you in Crete so that you might set right what remains to be done and appoint presbyters in every town, as I directed you, on condition that a man be blameless married only once, with believing children who are not accused of licentiousness or rebellious. For a bishop as God’s steward must be blameless, not arrogant not irritable, not a drunkard, not aggressive, not greedy for sordid gain, but hospitable, a lover of goodness,
lover of goodness, temperate, just, holy, and self-controlled, holding fast to the true message as taught so that he will be able both to exhort with sound doctrine and to refute opponents.
Ps 24:1b-2, 3-4ab, 5-6 Responsorial Psalm R. (see 6) Lord, this is the people that longs to see your face
Luke 17:1-6 “Things that cause sin will inevitably occur, but woe to the one through whom they occur It would be better for him if a millstone were put around his neck and he be thrown into the sea than for him to cause one of these little ones to sin Be on your guard If your brother sins, rebuke him and if he repents, forgive him And if he wrongs you seven times in one day and returns to you seven times saying, ‘I am sorry,’ you should forgive him.” And the Apostles said to the Lord, “Increase our faith.” The Lord replied, “If you have faith the size of a mustard seed, you would say to this mulberry tree,‘Be uprooted and planted in the sea,’ and it would obey you"
