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Pope Benedict on Tuesday linked the Church's opposition to gay marriage to concern about the environment, suggesting that laws undermining "the differences between the sexes" were threats to creation.The pope made his comments in an address to diplomats in his yearly assessment of world events. The main theme of the address was the environment and the protection of creation."To carry our reflection further, we must remember that the problem of the environment is complex; one might compare it to a multifaceted prism," he said."Creatures differ from one another and can be protected, or endangered, in different ways, as we know from daily experience. One such attack comes from laws or proposals which, in the name of fighting discrimination, strike at the biological basis of the difference between the sexes," he said."I am thinking, for example, of certain countries in Europe or North and South America," he said. This was a clear reference to legislation either enacted or proposed in several part of the world. Last month, Mexico City became the first capital in Catholic Latin America to allow same-sex marriage.In California, the U.S. state's ban on gay marriage goes to trial on Monday in a federal case that plaintiffs hope to take all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court and overturn bans throughout the nation.Gay marriage is legal is several U.S. states and some European countries. "Yet freedom cannot be absolute, since man is not God, but the image of God, God's creation. For man, the path to be taken cannot be determined by caprice or willfulness, but must rather correspond to the structure willed by the Creator," he said.
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READ THE BIBLE IN ONE YEAR: http://www.oneyearbibleonline.com/january.asp?version=63&startmmdd=0101
January 13, 2009 (Tit 2:11-14) For the grace of God our Saviour hath appeared to all men: Instructing us, that, denying ungodliness and worldly desires, we should live soberly and justly and godly in this world, Looking for the blessed hope and coming of the glory of the great God and our Saviour Jesus Christ. Who gave himself for us, that he might redeem us from all iniquity and might cleanse to himself a people acceptable, a pursuer of good works. HEADLINE: Pope says gay marriage threat to creationPope Benedict on Tuesday linked the Church's opposition to gay marriage to concern about the environment, suggesting that laws undermining "the differences between the sexes" were threats to creation.The pope made his comments in an address to diplomats in his yearly assessment of world events. The main theme of the address was the environment and the protection of creation."To carry our reflection further, we must remember that the problem of the environment is complex; one might compare it to a multifaceted prism," he said."Creatures differ from one another and can be protected, or endangered, in different ways, as we know from daily experience. One such attack comes from laws or proposals which, in the name of fighting discrimination, strike at the biological basis of the difference between the sexes," he said."I am thinking, for example, of certain countries in Europe or North and South America," he said. This was a clear reference to legislation either enacted or proposed in several part of the world. Last month, Mexico City became the first capital in Catholic Latin America to allow same-sex marriage.In California, the U.S. state's ban on gay marriage goes to trial on Monday in a federal case that plaintiffs hope to take all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court and overturn bans throughout the nation.Gay marriage is legal is several U.S. states and some European countries. "Yet freedom cannot be absolute, since man is not God, but the image of God, God's creation. For man, the path to be taken cannot be determined by caprice or willfulness, but must rather correspond to the structure willed by the Creator," he said.
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Ladder of Divine Ascent excerpt: Step 25- "On the destroyer of the pasions, most sublime humility"
26. Humility is a Divine shelter to prevent us from seeing our achievements. Humility ia an abyss of self-abasement, inaccessibile to any thief. Humility is a tower of strength against the face of the enemy. No advantage shall his enemy have over him, nor shall the son, or rahter the thought, of iniquity avail to hurt him any more, but he will hew down his enemies before his face, and them that hate him shall be put to flight.Prayer request? Send an email to: PrayerRequest3@aol.com
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