{"id":957,"date":"2020-07-28T00:18:11","date_gmt":"2020-07-28T04:18:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fatherboniface.org\/wordpresshome\/?p=957"},"modified":"2020-07-28T00:22:13","modified_gmt":"2020-07-28T04:22:13","slug":"letters-written-by-the-holy-spirit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fatherboniface.org\/wordpresshome\/saints-and-blesseds\/letters-written-by-the-holy-spirit\/","title":{"rendered":"Letters by the Holy Spirit"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Colossians 1:9-11 <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Through perfect wisdom and spiritual understanding, may you reach the fullest knowledge of God\u2019s will. So you will be able to lead the kind of life which the Lord expects of you, a life acceptable to him in all its aspects; showing the results in all the good actions you do and increasing your knowledge of God. You will have in you the strength, based on his own glorious power, never to give in, but to bear anything joyfully.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Your are Letters written by the Holy Spirit<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Thanks be to God who, wherever he goes, makes us, in Christ, partners of his triumph, and through us is spreading the knowledge of himself, like a sweet smell, everywhere. We are Christ\u2019s incense to God for those who are being saved .. the sweet smell of life that leads to life. And who could be qualified for work like this? We do not go round offering the word of God for sale, as many other people do. In Christ, we speak as men of sincerity, as envoys of God and in God\u2019s presence.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Does this sound like a new attempt to commend ourselves to you? Unlike other people, we need no letters of recommendation either to you or from you, because you are yourselves our letter, written in our hearts, that anybody can see and read, and it is plain that you are a letter from Christ, drawn up by us, and written not with ink but with the Spirit of the living God, not on stone tablets but on the tablets of your living hearts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

St Paul the Apostle<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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from a Letter by St Ignatius of Antioch<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Let us not fail to be moved by his goodness, for if he were ever to imitate the way we behave ourselves, we would be truly lost. Now that we are his disciples let us learn to lead Christian lives. Whoever does not take the name of Christian does not belong to God. Put aside the old worn-out leaven which has grown old and sour, and turn to the new leaven, which is Jesus Christ. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Do your utmost to stand firm in the precepts of the Lord and the Apostles, so that you may prosper in all that you do in the flesh and in the spirit, in faith and love, in the Son and the Father and the Spirit, at the beginning and at the end.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I am writing this from Smyrna and the Ephesians here send you their greeting. They, like you, are here for the glory of God and have in all things given me comfort, as has Polycarp, the bishop of the Smyrnaeans. The other Churches also greet you in honour of Jesus Christ.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Farewell. See that there is a godly unity among you
and an unhesitating spirit; for this is Jesus Christ.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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from a Sermon by Saint Augustine<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Our Lord\u2019s words teach us that though we labour among the many distractions of this world, we should have but one goal. For we are but travellers on a journey without as yet a fixed abode; we are on our way, not yet in our native land; we are in a state of longing, not yet of enjoyment. But let us continue on our way, and continue without sloth or respite, so that we may ultimately arrive at our destination.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Martha and Mary were sisters, related not only by blood but also by religious aspirations. They stayed close to our Lord and both served him harmoniously when he was among them. Martha welcomed him as travellers are welcomed. But in her case, the maidservant received her Lord, the invalid her Saviour, the creature her Creator, to serve him bodily food while she was to be fed by the Spirit. For the Lord willed to put on the form of a slave, and under this form to be fed by his own servants, out of condescension and not out of need. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

But you, Martha, if I may say so, are blessed for your good service, and for your labours you seek the reward of peace. Now you are much occupied in nourishing the body, admittedly a holy one. But when you come to the heavenly homeland will you find a traveller to welcome, someone hungry to feed, or thirsty to whom you may give drink, someone ill whom you could visit, or quarrelling whom you could reconcile, or dead whom you could bury?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

No, there will be none of these tasks there. What you will find there is what Mary chose. There we shall not feed others, we ourselves shall be fed. Thus what Mary chose in this life will be realised there in all its fullness; she was gathering fragments from that rich banquet, the Word of God. Do you wish to know what we will have there? The Lord himself tells us when he says of his servants, Amen, I say to you, he will make them recline and passing he will serve them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Colossians 1:9-11 Through perfect wisdom and spiritual understanding, may you reach the fullest knowledge of God\u2019s will. 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