![]() ![]() Mary's University and a PhD in Religion at Florida State University. He has worked for twenty years in adult catechesis, retreat ministry and teaching theology in various contexts trying to make present for others the "Word made fresh." Tom received a Masters in Systematic Theology from Mount St. Tom Neal presently serves as Academic Dean and Professor of Spiritual Theology at Notre Dame Seminary in New Orleans, Louisiana and has a particular passion for exposing the unlimited potential of theology to offer the faithful a deeper sharing in the mind and heart of Jesus Christ. This Lent, give heaven your tongue to re-consecrate the world.ĭr. From the same mouth come blessing and cursing. With it we bless the Lord and Father, and with it we curse those who are made in the likeness of God. The tongue is placed among our members as a world of iniquity it stains the whole body, sets on fire the cycle of nature, and is itself set on fire by hell. In his mercy, God has now entrusted each of us with a noble calling to bless those who curse and quench the fiery darts of the Enemy. But by our words, we chose to desecrate the earth with the curse of merciless death. When God formed us in his image, he consecrated our tongue for speech to bless the world with life-giving truth, beauty, goodness, mercy. But it’s much harder to rouse the courage to address the One whose permission allowed them to fall, only so you might manifest his mercy and run to their aid, pleading to him their cause.įor the measure you give will be the measure you get back. It’s so easy to hurl from the tongue-like stones-criticisms at those who have failed, who have fallen short. ![]() This Lent, turn your words upward more often than outward. This Lent, choose to “let no evil talk come out of your mouths, but only what is useful for building up, as there is need, so that your words may give grace to those who hear” (Eph. 12:36).īe silent, or say something better than silence. Words that tremble in the presence of their Creator, the Word through whom all things were made, he who once said to us, “On the day of judgment you will have to give an account for every careless word you utter” (Matt. Words that emerge from a place of depth, and not from the swampy shallows of superficiality. Fewer words, spoken with more consideration and care, more thought and deliberation, more reflection and repentance. This Lent, more silence for the mouth, the ears, the phone, the keyboard. Not simply to make them fewer, but to make them worthier of our dignity and his Majesty. ![]() (Sirach 27:7)Įvery Lent calls for a fasting from words. ![]()
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