Comments on: Thursday 2/9/2017 Original Goodness: Created from Love to Love https://www.acatholic.org/thursday-292017-original-innocence-created-from-love-to-love/ DAILY MASS READINGS AND REFLECTIONS @ ACATHOLIC.ORG Fri, 10 Feb 2017 19:34:26 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 By: Mary Ortwein https://www.acatholic.org/thursday-292017-original-innocence-created-from-love-to-love/#comment-6366 Fri, 10 Feb 2017 19:34:26 +0000 http://www.acatholic.org/?p=59686#comment-6366 To Mark and any others who may be interested in Original Solitude,
This was a topic in Pope John Paul II’s General Audiences in October, 1979.
Mary Ortwein

]]> By: Renata https://www.acatholic.org/thursday-292017-original-innocence-created-from-love-to-love/#comment-6362 Thu, 09 Feb 2017 17:45:42 +0000 http://www.acatholic.org/?p=59686#comment-6362 Wow! Mary, that was so amazing! Thank you for sharing with all of us what the Holy Spirit puts in your heart. I am still processing these wise words. It is so comforting to know that God gives us the Holy Spirit, Church, and sacrament to guide us today toward returning to our roots of Goodness. That is beautiful! Thank you again Mary!

]]> By: Mary Ortwein https://www.acatholic.org/thursday-292017-original-innocence-created-from-love-to-love/#comment-6361 Thu, 09 Feb 2017 14:07:47 +0000 http://www.acatholic.org/?p=59686#comment-6361 Mark,
Pope Saint John Paul II would agree with you. I won’t have access to my copy of Theology of the Body until later in the day, but I can point you to his comments based on Genesis 1 and 2 about the importance of embracing an inherent solitude which is essential for our humanity. That, too, is part of how God created humanity in His own image.

]]> By: Laura https://www.acatholic.org/thursday-292017-original-innocence-created-from-love-to-love/#comment-6360 Thu, 09 Feb 2017 12:58:07 +0000 http://www.acatholic.org/?p=59686#comment-6360 Thanks Mary, insightful reflection. It has shown how God’s presence goes with us, even when we have shut Him out by sin. He is always just outside our selfish thought, our angry outburst, waiting for us to come back to relationship with Him. God bless.

]]> By: Mark Misencik https://www.acatholic.org/thursday-292017-original-innocence-created-from-love-to-love/#comment-6359 Thu, 09 Feb 2017 12:01:09 +0000 http://www.acatholic.org/?p=59686#comment-6359 Hey Mary,

There are a few things about Gn 2:18 have caused me to wonder, but one in particular, being alone. I wonder if God didn’t mean to say “lonely”.

I read a quote a few months ago that has stuck with me, it’s by Sherry Turkle.

“If you don’t learn how to be alone, you’ll always be lonely, loneliness is failed solitude.”

Mark

]]> By: Judith https://www.acatholic.org/thursday-292017-original-innocence-created-from-love-to-love/#comment-6357 Thu, 09 Feb 2017 10:46:44 +0000 http://www.acatholic.org/?p=59686#comment-6357 Hi Mary,

I always love your reflections!

I read today’s reflection and somehow learnt something new about God’s love for man. Its amazing how God created various creatures just so He could please man! I realize that God has instincts like those of a woman. From this reflection, i see a motherly God who does everything that there is to please their child! How lucky we are to have a God who cares so much!

]]> By: M D https://www.acatholic.org/thursday-292017-original-innocence-created-from-love-to-love/#comment-6356 Thu, 09 Feb 2017 08:51:08 +0000 http://www.acatholic.org/?p=59686#comment-6356 Just awesome. Simply left a calming and happy effect. Really looking forward to some more. God bless you.

]]> By: O https://www.acatholic.org/thursday-292017-original-innocence-created-from-love-to-love/#comment-6355 Thu, 09 Feb 2017 06:59:42 +0000 http://www.acatholic.org/?p=59686#comment-6355 A very good reflection.

God bless.

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