Conversion of Manners
Conversion of Manners
Stability and Obedience are the vows we live by on a daily basis within our community. Conversion-of-manners is the vow that allows this to take place. When Christian’s talk of failure and sin, it comes from the assumption that we all have the ability to grow in interior freedom and in doing that we correspondingly grow in our ability to relate with compassion, empathy and love with those we live with.
There is a story about a visitor to a monastery and the visitor asked one of the monks what they did all day. He responded: “We fail and get up again, we fall and we get up again”. We never despair of the mercy of God.
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