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Theology & Culture

Nunc Coepi: Breaking Agreements

by Fr. Mike Schmitz
Photo by Josh Applegate on Unsplash

The first step is to stop. Once we realize that we have to repent...that we are called to "change our minds"...the first step is to stop.  

To examine what it is that we are thinking and to which thoughts, sins, and false images of God we have made agreements with. And then to break those agreements in order to say "Now I begin".

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