A Momentary Taste of Being: What Catholics (and other Christians) Can (and Should) Learn from Buddhism
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Such a statement comes only from certain knowledge of a shared fate and a deep compassion for human frailty and weakness--a compassion that demands walking with those more frail and weaker than ourselves and helping shoulder their burdens. We do this in prayer, in corporal works of mercy, and sometimes in our mere presence--a listening ear to turn to...
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Note: I have lived a long time and still I find only that single heart every few years, and in some areas decades, before that 'compassionate' soul walks across the great abyss and embraces who I am. I am grateful for being able to experience it at all. However, it is a great tragedy that it is not the agape of each and every second for souls, especially in the Church.
The "He ain't heavy, he's my brother" was the truth but not walked.
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