\nChrist will come to you offering His consolation, if you prepare a fit dwelling for Him in your heart, whose beauty and glory, wherein He takes delight, are all from within. His visits with the inward man are frequent, His communion sweet and full of consolation, His peace great, and His intimacy wonderful indeed.
\n<\/span><\/p>\nLove Him, then; keep Him as a friend. He will not leave you as others do, or let you suffer lasting death. Sometime, whether you will or not, you will have to part with everything. Cling, therefore, to Jesus in life and death; trust yourself to the glory of Him who alone can help you when all others fail.<\/p>\n
Your Beloved is such that He will not accept what belongs to another\u2014He wants your heart for Himself alone, to be enthroned therein as King in His own right. If you but knew how to free yourself entirely from all creatures, Jesus would gladly dwell within you.<\/p>\n
It is a great art to know how to converse with Jesus, and great wisdom to know how to keep Him. Be humble and peaceful, and Jesus will be with you. Be devout and calm, and He will remain with you. You may quickly drive Him away and lose His grace, if you turn back to the outside world. And, if you drive Him away and lose Him, to whom will you go and whom will you then seek as a friend? You cannot live well without a friend, and if Jesus be not your friend above all else, you will be very sad and desolate.<\/span><\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n\u00a0<\/p>\n
I can see both sides of the question, though. As an analogy to the view I am not<\/em> taking presently, I never<\/em> call myself a \u201cRoman Catholic\u201d: not because it is intrinsically incorrect<\/em> (rightly understood) but because of the baggage of the original Anglican anti-Catholic use of it, in a futile effort to preten<\/span><\/span>d that they were \u201cCatholics\u201d also: just not those wicked \u201cRoman [papist] Catholics.\u201d\u00a0<\/span>As one familiar with that history, I don\u2019t\u00a0use it because I don\u2019t wish to be a pawn in that word game. \u201cCatholic\u201d is perfectly adequate on its own.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\nBut there is a legitimate use of \u201cRoman Catholic,\u201d too, and even one as great and eminent as John Henry Cardinal Newman (my own hero) used it. \u00a0I\u2019m not sure why (because he knew the Anglican anti-Catholic history very well), but he did; so I don\u2019t get too legalistic against its use. If it is used, I think it must<\/em> be explained<\/em>, to overcome false conceptions of the Catholic Church.
It also implies an exclusion of Eastern Catholics, which is unfair and uncalled-for. The Catechism<\/em> never, to my knowledge, uses it.<\/span>
This question is similar. The phrase in dispute\u00a0clearly comes from a Protestant milieu, so the issue is whether we ought to use it. I say we should<\/em>, provided we always make clear what we mean and don\u2019t mean by it. I believe that the good achieved by common ground in this regard is more important than possible misunderstandings: which we can clear up by \u00a0clarification, anyway. Thus we can have\u00a0the \u201cbest of both worlds.\u201d<\/span>
In any event, \u201cpersonal relationship with Jesus\u201d is always profoundly sacramental for us (beyond the indwelling which all Christians believe in) in a way that is not true of most Protestants. This is the heart (no pun intended) of the Catholic conception of it.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Manuscript of\u00a0Thomas \u00e0 Kempis\u2019 Imitation of Christ [public domain \/ Wikimedia Commons] *** Catholic bloggers on Patheos (we call ourselves \u201cPatheosi\u201d) are having a good discussion about this issue right now in our private forum. It started with someone noting the article, \u201cThe Problem with \u2018A Personal Relationship with Jesus’\u201d (Dr. Jay Boyd, Homiletic & […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2331,"featured_media":2303,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[50],"tags":[108,109,107,110,105,104,106,111],"class_list":["post-2302","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-salvation-justification","tag-catholic-contemplatives","tag-catholic-mystics","tag-catholic-spirituality","tag-discipleship","tag-indwelling","tag-personal-relationship-with-jesus","tag-piety","tag-the-gospel"],"yoast_head":"\n
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