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Home from the Rage

1/9/2017

Very Short New Year’s Blog

(I was for 2 weeks with the family in North Carolina – eventually 11 people in the house)

Someone who disagrees with me about some elements of the way I am a magisterial Catholic said “I honor you for clinging to tradition to get hope.” I was very upset I think it is truth I am clinging to, because it is truth not because it is tradition. I thought it patronizing that those who, as I would see it, reject some moral obligations on the basis that these are traditions and ideals not obligations, then think of us to believe these obligations are essential as being fanatics.
When I prayed about these feelings of anger at what seemed to me to be the truth relegated to only a tradition, it seemed to me that Mother Mary wanted to tell me:
“Forgive! Think of the weaknesses behind certain sins. Thank Jesus for giving you the grace to avoid some of them. Your rage is also a sin.”

Thinking about how intense it was to have 11 intense people in one house, I was reminded that in the time of Jesus when most people lived in crowded houses, it is said that those who wished to pray in the home went up to the roof at night to pray while the others slept.

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Ronda Chervin received a Ph.D. in Philosophy from Fordham University and an MA in Religious Studies from Notre Dame Apostolic Institute. She is a dedicated widow, mother, and grandmother.
Ronda converted to the Catholic Faith from a Jewish, though atheistic, background and has been a Professor of Philosophy and Theology at Loyola Marymount University, the Seminary of the Archdiocese of Los Angeles, and Franciscan University of Steubenville. She is an international speaker and author of some fifty books about Catholic thought, practice and spirituality. One of her latest is LAST CALL, published by Goodbooks Media.
Dr. Ronda is currently retired and living in Corpus Christi, Texas after her years of teaching philosophy at Holy Apostles College and Seminary in Cromwell, Connecticut.
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