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No more will the work of our hands be an affliction

http://www.salvationhistory.com/homily_helps/english/september_8th_2013_-_23rd_sunday_in_ordinary_time

Our Lord today is telling us upfront the sacrifice it will take. His words aren’t addressed to His chosen few, the Twelve, but rather to the “great crowds”

 even our family ties and obligations - can become an excuse, an obstacle that keeps us from giving ourselves completely to Him


 So in His mercy He sent us His Spirit, His Wisdom from on High, to make straight our path to Him.


 Jesus himself paid the price for to free us from the sentence imposed on Adam


 No more will the work of our hands be an affliction, no more are we destined to turn back to dust.


 We are free now to come after Him, to serve Him - no longer slaves to the ties of our past lives.
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- Decretal on Penance (D. II., cap. Si quis semel)