I am a real Catholic Priest (@FrMatthewLC) who's autistic. I post about the intersection of autism & spirituality. #ActuallyAutistic #AutisticPrayer
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🧵My book, God Love the Autistic Mind is coming out tomorrow with @PBMPublishing.
I hope it helps a lot of autistics and those who love us.
Here's how to order it (print or digital).
This will be a thread of reviews or comments for anyone interested. 1/
frmatthewlc.com/2022/04/orde…
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"God never refuses a prayer for the deepening & growth of faith. Prayer is the food that will make faith grow, strengthen it, root it deep & lasting roots into our hearts." -Catherine Doherty
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Please pray that guest lectures on Autistic prayer today go well.
(I'm talking to 2 sessions of the same class via zoom starting in 15 minutes.)
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God created us to receive his mercy. We should not be afraid of receiving his mercy, such as in confession.
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In this life, there will be suffering. The question is what we make of suffering. Uniting our suffering to Jesus, transforms our suffering to be life-giving.
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"You cannot know people unless you love them. You cannot know a community created by God unless you love it." -Fr. Emile Briere
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"For those who have eyes to see, God is everywhere inserted into His material creation & working to bring it into its fulfillment unto His glory & the sharing of His own life & happiness with His human creatures." -Fr. George Malony, SJ
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"Prayer & work are inseparable, & the duty of the moment is the duty of God" -Catherine Doherty
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Knowledge alone cannot penetrate God. Even adding human love & hope, God remains impenetrable. It is only through faith & divine love we can see him as he is.
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"Faith walks simply childlike, between the darkness of human life & the hope of what is to come." -Catherine Doherty
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"The immediate reality of the Church is expressed & fulfilled in the Holy Eucharist where the love & life of God are poured upon creation, & where our union with God is enacted & made manifest in a bodily embrace." -Archbishop Joseph Raya
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The road can be dark & confusing, but keeping our eyes set on Jesus helps us see the way through.
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"The confessor is not a judge in the legal sense of the word. Rather, he is a witness, a healer, a counselor." -Archbishop Joseph Raya
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Jesus said, "learn from me, for I am meek & humble of heart." (Matthew 11:29)
Do we really learn this from Jesus? Does this really impact how we live our lives?
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We need to keep seeking God's will in our lives. We discern our vocation writ large, such as which community to join or who to marry, but we need tos eek to obey in the little things too.
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