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Thursday, October 9, 2008, St. Denis & Companions, St. John Leonardi
Galatians 3:1-5, Luke 1:69-75, Luke 11:5-13
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THE BATTLE FOR THE MIND
"You senseless Galatians! Who has cast a spell over you?" —Galatians 3:1
Paul didn't describe the Galatians as being heretics or teaching bad
theology. Rather, he accused them of having gone out of their minds and of
being under a spell. Paul didn't maintain that the Galatians had misused
their minds but lost their minds; they had been brainwashed. This seems to
be the case today. For instance, the "pro-choice" arguments justifying
abortion are so illogical and unscientific that only a generation of
mindless people could take them seriously. Moreover, in our secularized
culture, people claim they have the right to sin by committing homosexual
acts, pandering pornography, killing themselves, sterilizing the poor, and
starving the seriously sick. However, neither an individual nor two
"consenting adults" have the right to pollute and pervert our society. How
is this even a possibility unless most people have lost their minds?
How can we lose our minds? How can we be brainwashed? We lose our minds by
indulging our carnal desires (see 1 Pt 2:11). Our minds deteriorate
"through illusion and desire" (Eph 4:22). If we do not crucify our "flesh
with its passions and desires" (Gal 5:24), our carnal desires will crucify
our minds. We will no longer think Biblically, morally, and logically.
Because the devil wants to brainwash us, we either are taking on the mind
of Christ (see 1 Cor 2:16) or becoming mindless. Therefore, "do not
conform yourselves to this age but be transformed by the renewal of your
mind" (Rm 12:2).
Prayer: Father, give me "the mind of Christ" (1 Cor 2:16).
Promise: "If you, with all your sins, know how to give your children good
things, how much more will the heavenly Father give the Holy Spirit to
those who ask Him." —Lk 11:13
Praise: St. Denis and companions truly had the mind of Christ as they laid
down their lives for love of God and His Church.
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