Comments on: Monday 10/16/2017 – Defining role: ‘Slave of Christ’ https://www.acatholic.org/monday-10162017-defining-role-slave-of-christ/ DAILY MASS READINGS AND REFLECTIONS @ ACATHOLIC.ORG Wed, 18 Oct 2017 18:34:38 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 By: O https://www.acatholic.org/monday-10162017-defining-role-slave-of-christ/#comment-8916 Wed, 18 Oct 2017 18:34:38 +0000 http://www.acatholic.org/?p=61694#comment-8916 Hello Dan.

“Perhaps we need to work harder at emptying ourselves of all the junk that keeps us from experiencing Christ in our lives.”

That sentence speaks volumes. It is true that our modern world keeps us easily distracted from focusing on what is really important.

Thank you for sharing

(Also, I just couldn’t help myself from smiling at the pun: Paul was knocked off his high horse)

]]> By: Gigi Thomas https://www.acatholic.org/monday-10162017-defining-role-slave-of-christ/#comment-8900 Tue, 17 Oct 2017 08:03:38 +0000 http://www.acatholic.org/?p=61694#comment-8900 Another good one! Thank you, Dan.

]]> By: Muna https://www.acatholic.org/monday-10162017-defining-role-slave-of-christ/#comment-8893 Mon, 16 Oct 2017 22:39:40 +0000 http://www.acatholic.org/?p=61694#comment-8893 So beautiful. God bless you. May we be always subservient in our walk with Christ Jesus. Amen

]]> By: Alice https://www.acatholic.org/monday-10162017-defining-role-slave-of-christ/#comment-8891 Mon, 16 Oct 2017 13:03:41 +0000 http://www.acatholic.org/?p=61694#comment-8891 Thanks Dan for that very insightful reflection. In it the idea of becoming a slave of Christ Jesus by emptying himself like Jesus Himself did shows how we should be humbled in God’s presence so that we may be able to do His will. As Mary said when the Angel Gabriel went to her

]]> By: Laura https://www.acatholic.org/monday-10162017-defining-role-slave-of-christ/#comment-8889 Mon, 16 Oct 2017 12:02:33 +0000 http://www.acatholic.org/?p=61694#comment-8889 I find it fitting that you included that Jesus himself took the form of a slave and emptied himself, and that we are to do likewise. And that it is truly freeing to be an instrument in God’s hand. The secret to life and yet all my sins and laziness do get in the way of that. I love your reflections!

]]> By: Abigail E. McFeely https://www.acatholic.org/monday-10162017-defining-role-slave-of-christ/#comment-8888 Mon, 16 Oct 2017 10:31:14 +0000 http://www.acatholic.org/?p=61694#comment-8888 obedient or attentive to an excessive or servile degree- there I just had to look up the definition! Slave has become a new different word to be-slave=freedom. excellent reflection

]]> By: Uchenna https://www.acatholic.org/monday-10162017-defining-role-slave-of-christ/#comment-8887 Mon, 16 Oct 2017 08:34:55 +0000 http://www.acatholic.org/?p=61694#comment-8887 This is a different perspective to carrying the title of a slave. Great reflection,especially the subtle emphasis on ‘obsequious’.

]]> By: Mary Anne https://www.acatholic.org/monday-10162017-defining-role-slave-of-christ/#comment-8886 Mon, 16 Oct 2017 05:39:08 +0000 http://www.acatholic.org/?p=61694#comment-8886 Thank you for a beautiful reflection; Teaches me a very different approach to being slave. A slave for God like His Son our Lord Jesus Christ who emptied Himself became a slave in order that we may be saved.

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