I don't usually quote another person's blog entry almost in entireity, but I wanted to share this note of Aquinas's with you:
It's not words, and it's not events, and it's not retreats, though those are all good things. No, it's about the every day, boring habit of love. If you want to help others be free in love, you don't focus on events, you focus on the every day interior battle to develop a habit of love.
Perhaps this is the problem with a spiritual or ecclesial life or ministry that is event-oriented. It can build excitement for a moment, but it cannot build the daily habit of love.
Events are easy; they are quantifiable; they can generate "energy." But by themselves they cannot build the habits of heart in which God may find the space and freedom and peace in which to dwell.
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