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Aquinas on Degrees of Love of Neighbor A summary of Aquinas's division of love of neighbor in his work On the Perfection of the Spiritual Life. His aim here is explaining the perfection of the religious state and the episcopal state. Necessary love of neighbor…
On love and detachment
St. John of the Cross
The first is that you should have an equal love for and an equal forgetfulness of all persons, whether relatives or not, and withdraw your heart from relatives as much as from others, and in some ways even more for fear that flesh and blood may be quickened by the natural love that is ever alive among kin, and must always be mortified for the sake of spiritual perfection.
Regard all as strangers and you will fulfill your duty towards them better than by giving them the affection you owe God. Do not love one person more than another for you will err.
Though this seems inhuman and contradictory to the way John behave toward his own mother and brother, the tone finds its roots in the Gospel (Luke 14:26) -If any man come to me, and hate not his father and mother, and wife and children, and brethren, and sisters, yea and his own life also, he cannot be my disciple.
Love must not be based on temporal goods, such as blood, status or titles (A. 3 18-20); nor on natural goods: beauty, intelligence, and so on (A. 3. 21-23)..The person who loves God more is the one more worthy of love, and you do not know who this is. But forgetting everyone alike, as is necessary for holy recollection, you will free yourself from this error of loving one person more or less than another.
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St. John of the Cross
The first is that you should have an equal love for and an equal forgetfulness of all persons, whether relatives or not, and withdraw your heart from relatives as much as from others, and in some ways even more for fear that flesh and blood may be quickened by the natural love that is ever alive among kin, and must always be mortified for the sake of spiritual perfection.
Regard all as strangers and you will fulfill your duty towards them better than by giving them the affection you owe God. Do not love one person more than another for you will err.
Though this seems inhuman and contradictory to the way John behave toward his own mother and brother, the tone finds its roots in the Gospel (Luke 14:26) -If any man come to me, and hate not his father and mother, and wife and children, and brethren, and sisters, yea and his own life also, he cannot be my disciple.
Love must not be based on temporal goods, such as blood, status or titles (A. 3 18-20); nor on natural goods: beauty, intelligence, and so on (A. 3. 21-23)..The person who loves God more is the one more worthy of love, and you do not know who this is. But forgetting everyone alike, as is necessary for holy recollection, you will free yourself from this error of loving one person more or less than another.
#charity #detachment
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On love and detachment St. John of the Cross The first is that you should have an equal love for and an equal forgetfulness of all persons, whether relatives or not, and withdraw your heart from relatives as much as from others, and in some ways even more…
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Conference on Detachment
Fr. Chad Ripperger, F.S.S.P., PhD.
Detachment, sometimes called Holy Indifference, is the withholding of affection from creatures to God alone. What this means is that one desires nothing, seeks after nothing, wants nothing except God alone. Holy Indifference means that when it comes to the created order we are completely indifferent as to what happens to it and to us. We are not indifferent or detached than for any other reason than God alone. We are not detached because these things are evil; we are detached because they are good and since they are good they can come between us and God. This detachment has to be complete.
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Fr. Chad Ripperger, F.S.S.P., PhD.
Detachment, sometimes called Holy Indifference, is the withholding of affection from creatures to God alone. What this means is that one desires nothing, seeks after nothing, wants nothing except God alone. Holy Indifference means that when it comes to the created order we are completely indifferent as to what happens to it and to us. We are not indifferent or detached than for any other reason than God alone. We are not detached because these things are evil; we are detached because they are good and since they are good they can come between us and God. This detachment has to be complete.
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Detachment is a withdrawal from all evil desires.
"Jesus said to his disciples: “Amen, amen, I say to you, unless a grain of wheat falls to the ground and dies, it remains just a grain of wheat; but if it dies, it produces much fruit.”
John 12:24
“Whatever a man loves he inevitably clings to, and in order not to lose it he rejects everything that keeps him from it. So he who loves God cultivates pure prayer, driving out every passion that keeps him from it.”
St Maximos the Confessor
"When self-will and ease become habitual, they overthrow a man."
St. Poemen
“If you purify your soul of attachment to and desire for things, you will understand them spiritually. If you deny your appetite for them, you will enjoy their truth, understanding what is certain in them.”
St John of the Cross
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"Jesus said to his disciples: “Amen, amen, I say to you, unless a grain of wheat falls to the ground and dies, it remains just a grain of wheat; but if it dies, it produces much fruit.”
John 12:24
“Whatever a man loves he inevitably clings to, and in order not to lose it he rejects everything that keeps him from it. So he who loves God cultivates pure prayer, driving out every passion that keeps him from it.”
St Maximos the Confessor
"When self-will and ease become habitual, they overthrow a man."
St. Poemen
“If you purify your soul of attachment to and desire for things, you will understand them spiritually. If you deny your appetite for them, you will enjoy their truth, understanding what is certain in them.”
St John of the Cross
#detachment
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Detachment is a withdrawal from all evil desires. "Jesus said to his disciples: “Amen, amen, I say to you, unless a grain of wheat falls to the ground and dies, it remains just a grain of wheat; but if it dies, it produces much fruit.” John 12:24 “Whatever…
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Article
Virtue of detachment in the Christian Tradition: A study of St. John of the Cross and Thomas Merton
David C. Weickert
"An important obstacle to the actual accomplishment of union in this life by many disciples is a misunderstanding of the detachment. Detachment is relevant to every Christian disciple because it is an irreplaceable element on the way to union. Detachment allows for the authentic formation of the disciple’s identity in Christ, is necessary for the perfection of the theological virtues, and is the image of the mystical marriage with God.
In the growth of the soul’s union with God, the disciple learns how to truly love both God
and others, so detachment properly understood is learning to love with one’s whole self."
#detachment
Virtue of detachment in the Christian Tradition: A study of St. John of the Cross and Thomas Merton
David C. Weickert
"An important obstacle to the actual accomplishment of union in this life by many disciples is a misunderstanding of the detachment. Detachment is relevant to every Christian disciple because it is an irreplaceable element on the way to union. Detachment allows for the authentic formation of the disciple’s identity in Christ, is necessary for the perfection of the theological virtues, and is the image of the mystical marriage with God.
In the growth of the soul’s union with God, the disciple learns how to truly love both God
and others, so detachment properly understood is learning to love with one’s whole self."
#detachment