![]() ![]() It would be possible, and this is a danger I am well aware, for me to be a priest serving in my own strength, performing all the services of the Church, and yet to be lacking in spiritual life. It was the publican, for all of his sins and faults, whose prayers were heard, because he prayed from a repentant heart, and responded to the movement of the Spirit within him. We know that in the parable of the Pharisee and the Publican, the Pharisee was certainly the one who performed all of the religious obligations laid on the Jews, but his prayers were not heard because he was not a spiritual man. Now we should say at the beginning that a spiritual man or woman is not a person who simply does religious things. Here he says that the true worshipper is a spiritual man or a spiritual woman, and that the meaning of the Gospel is that they should be brought to union with God. ![]() ![]() Through the Gospel teaching the true worshipper, that is, the spiritual man, shall be brought to a life well-pleasing unto the Father, hasting unto union with God. ![]() In this second session today I would like us to think about what it practically means to become those spiritual men and women who offer worship in spirit and truth. In the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit, one God. ![]()
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