CCTD001c Yours Always
Yours Always [35:27m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download Guide to : Play Now | Play in Popup | DownloadIts as if our creed is signed, “yours always, love” and then the name of each person of faith, follows. And like we talked about last time, when we considered the question of who finds who, not only is the creed signed, “yours always,” by us, but more importantly, “yours always,” is God’s promise and plan. It’s God’s salutation in the Genesis story as well as Jesus’ parting word to us. “Yours always,” is God’s promise and plan for humanity and all of creation.
This podcast is the third in a series of three that correspond with the Welcome Session of the 2007 liturgical year Catechumenate for the St. Vincent de Paul Catholic Church, Holladay, Utah. In the two parts of this conversation completed, we’ve said, first, that our hearts’ desire for bliss is, and secondly, fulfilled with our free acceptance of God’s love. In this third part, we turn our attention first to how we hear God’s “yours always.” then next, how we respond likewise.
The endearing salutation, “yours always” expresses respect born of commitment and affection. We acknowledge the respect born of commitment and affection “in religious terminology, reverence” which the 2nd commandment calls us to in respecting the very name of God. The gift of one’s name, especially an endearing one, is personal and loving, a sign of deepening friendship and trust. It’s pretty clear then, that when we say, or better yet, when we pray this name, when we reverence God’s name, these behaviors sanctify us and orients us.
What “sanctify” might mean or what the “orient us” entails is what we talk about next: so that are lives are not lived in vain, what does knowing God’s name commit us to, which is to say how does it “orient us,” and thus, how does it impact the way we live? How is it sanctifying?
Our conversation covers the inseparability of the 1st and 2nd commandments. They orient and sanctify our lives with faith, hope and love. We discuss how Jesus fulfills the religious tradition of his upbringing by living these two commandments while simultaneously keeping the command to love one’s neighbor. He invites us to follow him and do this in memory of him. In response to God’s insistent and unconditional love — that which orients us, Jesus taught that we should love God in return, with all our heart, all of our soul, all of our mind and all of our strength — that which sanctifies us.
Every human being is summoned to have faith in God, to hope in God,
and to love God above all else [CCC 2134] -this is our faith!
Recommended Reading
8 Spiritual Heroes, Brennan R. Hill
St. Anthony Messenger Press, 2002, ISBN 0-86716-421-2
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Dangerous Memories, Bernard J. Hill, Michael A. Cowan
Sheed & Ward, 1986, ISBN 0-934134-70-7
Dangerous Memories: House Churches and Our American Story
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A Spirituality of Wholeness, Bill Huebsch
Twenty-Third Publications, 1988, ISBN 0-89622-355-8
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