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The Chalice of Self-Acceptance: Johannes Metz on Loving God, Neighbor, and Self (Lectio Divina)
Most of us were taught that loving others is a virtue we cultivate by turning outward. But Jesus’s second great commandment carries a hidden demand: that we first receive the love we are commanded to give. This reflection sits with Johannes Baptist Metz’s unsettling claim that flight from self is flight from God —…
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Loving the Untouchable as the Body of Christ: On Becoming the Place Where His Love Still Gives Itself (Lectio Divina)
What if loving your neighbor wasn’t charity at all, but something closer to becoming a body broken open for them? This reflection sits with Mother Teresa’s vision of Christ hungry, thirsty, and homeless in disguise — and asks what it costs to actually be the one who answers.