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No Longer Carved in Stone: Augustine of Hippo and Love as God’s One Law (Lectio Divina)
What if the law you can’t seem to keep was never meant to be kept from outside at all? Augustine insists something was written into you long before you ever tried, and failed, to obey a command pressed on you from without.
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The Love That Cannot Be Hoarded: Augustine of Hippo on Loving Neighbor and God (Lectio Divina)
What if the love you offer your neighbor was never something you generated on your own? Augustine insists that the very love binding you to another person is the same love that is God — and holding onto it as though it were yours to keep might cost you the ability to love at…
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Opening the Heart: Love, Grace, and the Practice of Saying Yes (Lectio Divina)
Every moment is an invitation to open our hearts or harden them. Drawing on Karl Rahner’s theology of grace and Elizabeth Johnson’s vision of love’s ever-widening circle, this Lectio Divina reflects on why love takes practice, why the neighbor is our primary teacher, and how Christ’s self-emptying becomes the ground of our own yes.