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Sister Mary Margaret Funk

Sister Mary Margaret Funk

My name is Mary Margaret Funk, but most people call me Meg Funk. Since 1961 I have been a member of the Order of Saint Benedict at Our Lady of Grace Monastery in Beech Grove, Indiana. I have written books on Christian contemplative tradition, including Humility Matters, Thoughts Matter, and Tools Matter. My book Islam Is...
Lectio Matters, before the burning bush will be published by Continuum of London fall 2010. A paperback edition of Humility Matters will be ready June 2010.

This website is to be my virtual office to provide text and context for current writings.

Thoughts

To be Clean!

by Monk of the Eastern Church
September 3, 2010 6:32am
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Possessed by forgiveness

Inner purification

Jesus A Dialogue with the Saviour
Chapter XXVII: on purification through Jesus

“Now you are clean, by reason of the word which I have spoken to you.” The Saviour’s word is not only an incitement to purification and an instrument through which this purification is declared, but it also purifies in a substantial way.

If we receive this word by opening our heart to it, by letting ourselves be possessed by it, we are made clean even before forgiveness has been formally asked for and granted. For we receive the Word made flesh. This purification lasts as long as the union of the soul with the Word lasts.
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small becomes great

by Monk of the Eastern Church
September 2, 2010 8:07am
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small

small

Jesus A Dialogue with the Saviour
Chapter XXVI: another version of the little way!

The sign by which the shepherds will recognize the Saviour is that they will find “the infant wrapped in swaddling clothes and laid in a manger.” No sign of power accompanies the birth of Jesus Christ.
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