Saturday of Week 28 in Ordinary Time
Feast of St Ignatius of Antioch
Do not have Jesus Christ on your lips,
and the world in your hearts.
St Ignatius, Epistle to the Romans
The context of this passage from Luke 12 comes on the heels of much contempt for hypocrisy and the un-integrated person. So perhaps this distinction between, speaking a word against the Son of Man (forgivable), and blaspheming against the Holy Spirit (unforgivable), has to do with that hypocrisy. Ignorance, lack of experience, or misinformation might lead many to speak a word against the Son of Man. But blaspheming against the Holy Spirit implies a certain knowing about what one is doing. It has a violence to it. Hypocrites live in that tension that does violence to that part of themselves they must deny in order to maintain their outside shell.
Enter St Ignatius of Antioch.
Hearts and Lips
On the same page
Speaking the same language
In sync
A good prayer for today.
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