tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34254421.post7249585900064081385..comments2023-09-23T07:04:26.564-04:00Comments on Vita Nostra in Ecclesia: The Conscience at PentecostBenderhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09322135500288738561noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34254421.post-38225776059489993122011-06-11T19:33:24.174-04:002011-06-11T19:33:24.174-04:00Now there's a challenge, separating the will f...Now there's a challenge, separating the will from conscience. It's easy to call outward evil what it is; it's more difficult to wade through the morass of reality and figure out where everything fits. <br /><br />I'm guilty of presuming to know someone else's conscience and judging them for it -- often when I have no clue of extenuating circumstances. <br /><br />Am I saying that we must each let our personal reality dictate what our conscience is? No. I'm saying that in the day-to-day formation of it we need to have faith that our errors of conscience will be corrected by God if that is what we want Him to do and ask Him to do. We pray that things we are about to do or things we have done were the right things. <br /><br />We need help wading through the gray.<br /><br />Sometimes, even with the best of intentions, we make horrific mistakes along the way. All we can do in that case is apologize for any harm we've done and count on God's mercy to save us from ourselves.Prairie Lovernoreply@blogger.com