The new liturgical year is as good a reason as any to start renewing my goal and resolutions. I make a list of ten goals every year to work on: some long-term, some short. It's time to review and renew them. My Needs: Keep holy. Stay healthy in body, mind, and spirit for the trip to heaven. Serve Jesus Christ first and always according to my vows, baptismal, religious, and priestly. Love God and neighbor in unselfish service. As these stand, rather unspecific.''
Next, to plan the goals: 10 concrete objectives to accomplishment. St Paul speaks of a division of Spirit, Soul, and Body, which William of St. Thierry uses to provide the makings of the spiritual economy of the religious. The body is the field of interaction with the world including the corporeal relationships we have with others; the soul is the field of virtue where we have the moral life, including communion in knowledge and love; the Spirit is the hermitage of the heart where I dwell with Christ alone in a way he orders and shapes as I yield him room.
Enough for now.
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