Comments on: Good and Evil in a Plate of Spaghetti https://www.acatholic.org/good-and-evil-in-a-plate-of-spaghetti/ DAILY MASS READINGS AND REFLECTIONS @ ACATHOLIC.ORG Sat, 05 Nov 2016 02:49:01 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 By: Angel https://www.acatholic.org/good-and-evil-in-a-plate-of-spaghetti/#comment-5045 Mon, 12 Sep 2016 21:51:53 +0000 http://www.acatholic.org/?p=57612#comment-5045 Thanks Mary for sharing God’s word with us! What’s in the mind of Christ? That’s a good question, what would Jesus do? In our saucy spaghetti bowl of life, going back in the box is not really easy. I guess discerning God’s will for us requires that we humbly put our trust in Him. Jesus’ name means “God saves” or Emmanuel “God is with us” His pourpose for us seems to be one of redeeming solidarity, in His infinite mercy reaching out for us in our messiness, calling us to daily conversion. Lord Jesus, come to our aid, help us walk with You & imitate You patiently reaching out to our brothers in this foggy journey toward complete communion with You

]]> By: Anonymous https://www.acatholic.org/good-and-evil-in-a-plate-of-spaghetti/#comment-4931 Tue, 30 Aug 2016 20:47:05 +0000 http://www.acatholic.org/?p=57612#comment-4931 Your reflections are such a gift to those searching for holiness as God wants from each of us. Through your conversions we in turn learn what we must do to be converted and to trust and believe in God’s justice and mercy.
Thank you so much,
Margene

]]> By: RL https://www.acatholic.org/good-and-evil-in-a-plate-of-spaghetti/#comment-4928 Tue, 30 Aug 2016 15:53:18 +0000 http://www.acatholic.org/?p=57612#comment-4928 Mary, I love your spaghetti analogy.
A problem I have is I do expect the evening newscasters and competing politicians to have Christian moral values. Obviously, I am frustrated they don’t. Someday? The same with those I encounter in business affairs, but here I have a choice and exercise it. Family can be a big heap of spaghetti! Thanks,
RL

]]> By: Judith Kasurubitwa https://www.acatholic.org/good-and-evil-in-a-plate-of-spaghetti/#comment-4926 Tue, 30 Aug 2016 12:01:18 +0000 http://www.acatholic.org/?p=57612#comment-4926 Thanks Mary. Beautiful, beautiful reflection!

Judith

]]> By: Marianne https://www.acatholic.org/good-and-evil-in-a-plate-of-spaghetti/#comment-4925 Tue, 30 Aug 2016 11:54:02 +0000 http://www.acatholic.org/?p=57612#comment-4925 I have come to look forward to Tuesday mornings in anticipation of your reflections ever since your reelection on love and mercy never being wasted.

The plate of speghetti analogy is very timely to me personally. I face large, complex decisions influenced by all the factors you mentioned. In my current confusion it does not seem possible to find any solution that will be fully just and good. But I will spend time trying to listen to the Spirit. I will try to find a mix of mercy and justice that comes from the mind of Christ and not my own tainted views that cover the speghetti. I will seek conversion when my decisions do not untangle the speghetti as I hoped.
Thank you for sharing what the Spirit has shown you.

]]> By: Jack Findlay https://www.acatholic.org/good-and-evil-in-a-plate-of-spaghetti/#comment-4924 Tue, 30 Aug 2016 10:32:20 +0000 http://www.acatholic.org/?p=57612#comment-4924 We persist in praying, “Lord lead us not into evil…”. Why? Is it the poetry? It is convoluted, and distorts your message of the Spitit.

]]> By: Granny https://www.acatholic.org/good-and-evil-in-a-plate-of-spaghetti/#comment-4922 Tue, 30 Aug 2016 09:17:58 +0000 http://www.acatholic.org/?p=57612#comment-4922 Your reflection comes very timely as my plate of spaghetti in a certain situation is so tangled I cannot see my way to the Lord’s solution. So I am choosing to do nothing in response to an attack of evil. This is so contrary to my ever controlling self. I have chosen to wait upon the Lord and realize that I am not – as Sister Ann Shields points out – the VP of creation. I just don’t know what to do. Please pray for me

]]> By: Mark Misencik https://www.acatholic.org/good-and-evil-in-a-plate-of-spaghetti/#comment-4921 Tue, 30 Aug 2016 01:43:46 +0000 http://www.acatholic.org/?p=57612#comment-4921 Hey Mary,

I do enjoy reading your reflections. You tackle some difficult questions.

Defining something by an absence is difficult. It is like saying beauty is is the absence of of ugly. Well that depends on what you think is ugly. That example can be applied to good and evil which, in turn, can be applied to moral relativism.

No?

Mark

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