{"id":32010,"date":"2017-11-22T12:27:17","date_gmt":"2017-11-22T18:27:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.markmallett.com\/blog\/?p=32010"},"modified":"2017-11-24T11:28:14","modified_gmt":"2017-11-24T17:28:14","slug":"the-art-of-beginning-again-part-iii","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.markmallett.com\/blog\/the-art-of-beginning-again-part-iii\/","title":{"rendered":"The Art of Beginning Again – Part III","gt_translate_keys":[{"key":"rendered","format":"text"}]},"content":{"rendered":"

THE NOW WORD ON MASS READINGS
\n for November 22nd, 2017
\n Wednesday of the Thirty-Third Week in Ordinary Time
\n Memorial of St. Cecilia, Martyr<\/p>\n

Liturgical texts\u00a0here<\/i><\/a><\/p>\n

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TRUSTING<\/p>\n

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THE\u00a0<\/strong>first sin of Adam and Eve was not eating the “forbidden fruit.” Rather, it was that they broke\u00a0trust<\/em> with the Creator\u2014trust that He had their best interests, their happiness, and their future in His hands. This broken trust is, to this very hour, the Great Wound in the heart of each of us. It is a wound in our inherited nature that leads us to doubt God’s goodness, His forgiveness, providence, designs, and above all, His love. If you want to know how serious, how intrinsic this existential wound is to the human condition, then look at the Cross. There you see what was necessary to begin the healing of this wound: that God himself would have to die in order to mend what man himself had destroyed.[1]<\/sup><\/a>cf.\u00a0Why Faith?<\/em><\/a><\/span><\/span>