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<b style="margin:0px;outline:medium none currentcolor;padding:0px;font-family:georgia,"times new roman";font-weight:normal"><b style="margin:0px;outline:medium none currentcolor;padding:0px;font-size:18px;font-family:georgia,"times new roman";color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:normal;font-style:normal"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:18px;font-weight:400;line-height:inherit;text-decoration:inherit;font-family:georgia,"times new roman";font-style:normal"><b style="margin:0px;outline:medium none currentcolor;padding:0px;font-weight:normal"><b style="margin:0px;outline:medium none currentcolor;padding:0px;font-size:18px;font-family:georgia,"times new roman";color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:normal;font-style:normal"><b style="margin:0px;outline:medium none currentcolor;padding:0px;font-size:18px;font-family:georgia,"times new roman";color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:normal;font-style:normal"><b style="margin:0px;outline:medium none currentcolor;padding:0px;font-size:18px;font-family:georgia,"times new roman";color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:normal;font-style:normal"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:18px;font-weight:400;line-height:inherit;text-decoration:inherit;font-family:georgia,"times new roman";font-style:normal">Friends,
<span style="background-color:rgb(208,224,227)"><b> today’s Gospel declares that when the Spirit comes, he will guide us
into all truth.</b></span> There is a story I’ve heard about Jean-Luc Marion that,
if it isn’t true, should be<span style="background-color:rgb(249,203,156)"><b>. In the midst of a lively lecture on
Descartes, a student asked a pointed question about God. Marion looked
at her and said, "Go to <span class="m_-3430522460344677826gmail-aBn"><span class="m_-3430522460344677826gmail-aQJ">Sunday</span></span> Mass for a year and then return and ask me that question again."</b></span></span><span style="background-color:rgb(249,203,156)"><b><br><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:18px;line-height:inherit;text-decoration:inherit;font-family:georgia,"times new roman";font-style:normal"> </span></b></span><br><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:18px;font-weight:400;line-height:inherit;text-decoration:inherit;font-family:georgia,"times new roman";font-style:normal">Marion’s
response was not just a clever one-liner. <span style="background-color:rgb(255,242,204)"><b>If true knowledge of God
depends upon immersion in the Holy Spirit, then that knowledge is a
function of an entire form of life, involving prayer, self-denial, the
corporal and spiritual works of mercy, and the forgiveness of one’s
enemies. </b></span>We don’t think our way to an understanding of God so much as we
</span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:18px;font-weight:400;line-height:inherit;text-decoration:inherit;font-family:georgia,"times new roman";font-style:italic">live</span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:18px;font-weight:400;line-height:inherit;text-decoration:inherit;font-family:georgia,"times new roman";font-style:normal"> our way to it.</span><br><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:18px;font-weight:400;line-height:inherit;text-decoration:inherit;font-family:georgia,"times new roman";font-style:normal"> </span><br><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:18px;font-weight:400;line-height:inherit;text-decoration:inherit;font-family:georgia,"times new roman";font-style:normal"><span style="background-color:rgb(255,242,204)"><b>Thomas
Aquinas always said that he owed his theology far more to the
persistence of his prayer </b><b>than</b></span><span style="background-color:rgb(217,234,211)"><b> to the acuity of his mind.</b></span> <span style="background-color:rgb(255,242,204)"><b>His
penetration of the divine mystery flowed from his life in the Holy
Spirit. And so today we pray, <span style="background-color:rgb(208,224,227)">"Come, Holy Spirit, come!"</span></b></span></span></b></b></b></b></span></b></b>
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