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Love Thy Neighbor

Posted on Wednesday, December 10, 2014 by Women of Grace Staff

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"Hate the sin. Love the sinner."Love2  (Cum dilectione hominum et odio vitiorum, which translates roughly to "With love for mankind and hatred of sins.")

-St. Augustine, Letter 211 (c. 424)

For Reflection:

Such simple words, but words so hard to live! Why is it difficult to separate the sin from the sinner? What virtue will most help me to accomplish this goal?

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b1633Fire Within: St. Teresa of Avila, St. John of the Cross, and the Gospel on Prayer. Fr. Thomas Dubay,SM  Pb 358 pgs

Chapter One Page 7  Buddhist "contemplation" is impersonal, not a love matter at all, whereas that represented by Teresa and John is preeminently a profound personal love union with God. The Buddhist writer neither affirms nor denies God; he simply has nothing to say about communing with the supreme Being.

 

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