One of the points I have made recently is that you can only achieve freedom in the absence of ego. It gave me pause to see the same concept here. I haven't done a ton of research into this establishment, but it doesn't look healthy. Its invitation to eliminate "SELF" is similar to what I have written, but not the same.
I still believe what I wrote, but I also believe it needs to be clarified, or it becomes an invitation for flogging yourself.
In my opinion, the ego must be diminished to make room for the freedom of God. God gives us freedom when we obey Him. But God also gave us a set of tools to help figure out what that means. We aren't to be told God's will and to follow it blindly. We were given tools to determine the will of God and we are to use those tools to find discernment.
One of the key concepts of the Catholic belief is the importance of conscience. Your conscience if formed by looking at the facts and applying your moral beliefs to those facts. It should feed your decision-making process.
Your community should also feed it. The Bible clearly indicates that we are to seek wise counsel. And the Word of God is pretty clear about a lot of things.
So while we are looking at obedience and the making less of self, we need to look at it in the context of conscience and wise advice and the Bible and prayer. Anything else is an invitation to domination.
We are fearfully and wonderfully made. We screw up, but we are here to help each other and guide each other to the finish line. Anything that doesn't feed that is clearly wrong.
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