source: dailygospel.org 07 sept 2016
re: celibacy
fr: 1 corinthians 7:28
"if you marry, however, you do not sin...; but such people will experience AFFLICTION in their earthly life, and i would like to spare you that."
re: obedience and poverty
fr: st. gregory of nyssa (C.+395), monk & Bishop. The beatitudes, 1.
"as almost all men have a natural tendency to pride, the lord begins the beatitudes by casting aside the original sin of self-sufficiency and by counseling our imitation of him who is truly blessed, the genuinely voluntary POOR man... so we might become like him in voluntary poverty that is according to our measure so as to share his blessedness, his happiness. 'have among you the same attitude that is also yours in christ jesus. who, though he was in the form of god, did not regard equality with god something to be grasped. rather, he emptied himself, taking the form of a slave' (philippians 2:5-7)
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