Saturday, 8/6/14
In his Letter to the Corinthians Paul wrote, “What do you possess that you have not received?”
Lately I have been showing that verse to my Catholic
friends. I have gone on to remind them of how they received all their genes
from their parents. Then, their parents, building on those natural gifts, have
taught them to walk, talk, and behave with others.
From there, their teachers took over, filling their minds
with useful knowledge, and enforcing on them habits that have transformed
them from being animals to being scholars. They might have been screaming and
kicking through their school years, but they have been fully transformed by these
character-building disciplines.
They have become the repositories of their culture, and they
have been entrusted with the duty of passing it on.
Together with the thought that they have nothing that they
haven’t received, they must couple
what Jesus said in Matthew, 5:13-14. Namely, they are the light of the world,
they are the salt of the earth.
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