Healing in the Eucharistic Assembly
The Choice Is Yours
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You and I have been gifted with the precious benefit of a free will. God lets us choose to grow spiritually as much as we want. If things seem dark for you at the moment, you don't have to leave them that way. You can change, and you can do it now. You can choose to let the Lord free you from worry, resentments morbid brooding, self-pity, or dark desires. But this can happen only if you yield yourself totally to the Lord, to be made whole by him, "in body, mind, and spirit" (1 Thes 5:23).
It requires generous cooperation with God's grace to bring thoughts and emotions into line with God's magnificent plan. But as we learn to practice thought-control, the master architect of our character, we will be fitted by the Master Architect for life in the celestial mansion that he has designed to be our home.
This excerpt is from the book The Art of Loving God by John H. Hampsch, C.M.F., originally published by Servant Publications, 1995. This and other of Fr. Hampsch's books and audio/visual materials can be purchased from Claretian Teaching Ministry, 20610 Manhattan Pl, #120, Torrance, CA 90501-1863. Phone 1-310-782-6408.
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About the Author
The Rev. John H. Hampsch, C.M.F., ordained as a Catholic priest in 1952, is a member of the Claretian Missionaries, and is founder and director of the Claretian Teaching Ministry. Listed in Who’s Who in Religion in America, he has served as parish priest, seminary professor and rector, college professor, lecturer, magazine writer, newspaper columnist, editor, retreat master, hospital chaplain, prison chaplain, campus chaplain, Cursillo director and director of suicide prevention programs in Texas and California.
He earned degrees in philosophy from Loyola-Marymount University in Los Angeles and from Notre Dame University, with postgraduate work at the University of Southern California and the Dominican House of Studies in River Forest, Illinois, in ascetical and mystical theology.
Find his many books and audio/visual recordings at www.Catholicbooks.net
