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Father Len presents the solution to contention and division in our individual lives and in the world around us.
Highlights, Ideas, and Wisdom
- “Secretaries rule the world. Never tick off a secretary because they control everything.” – Father Len
- Unity comes through Christ.
- The word Catholic means universal.
- Father Len shares the hope for unity found in the two creation stories in the Bible.
- We are meant to live in unity with other people, even when there is great diversity.
- The word devil means divider. The devil is constantly tempting us to be divided against each other and God.
- Humanity is forever attempting to come up with a source of unity outside of Christ.
- We end up more divided when we develop external things to bring us together.
- Ego will always tear us apart.
- The Bible chronicles humanity’s quest for unity.
- Father Len shares the Bible story of the Good Samaritan to reveal God’s most important laws.
- We cannot possibly love God without loving one another.
- The Catholic Church is the most ethnically diverse movement in human history.
- Father Len tells the story of what CS Lewis learned about the effect other people and community have on our personalities.
- Father Len explains why private personal relationships with God are not Christian and not spiritual.
- God is perfect loving community.
- The one thing God desires in the Bible is family; that all of us will look at each other as brothers and sisters.
- Unity is not brought about by conformity.
- Our relationship with other human beings should be founded on God.
- The only path to unity is the self-sacrificing love Christ came into the world to model for us.