4. Tony DeMello states, “Don’t cut the person to fit the coat.” Explain the meaning of this saying as it applies to his understanding of the relationship between “spirituality” and “religion”.
Answer: Anthony De Mello was a Jesuit priest of the Catholic Church. At the beginning of the “song of the bird” de mello states his rootedness in the catholic church but he does not limit his songs to only the faithful. He believes we are people first and then people of various denominations and religions. Our heritage has all religious and non-religious traditions.
Don’t cut the person to fit the coat: means to plan one’s activities in line with ones resources and circumstances. Or to only buy what you have enough money to pay for.
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God’s love encompasses each of us with a warm acceptance .God continually calls us to draw near to what we need. To listen to Gods reassuring words of love gives us a feeling of being whole and lovable. Therefore it makes us free to love others like the way God loves us....just as we are.
2. Explain how Wilkie Au and Noreen Cannon in “Urgings of the Heart” understand spirituality within the context of wholeness and self-transcendence.
Answer : Like Paul in the Bible we are all confused with our internal fragmentation. “I carry out sinful things I do not want .What a wretch I am ..Romans 7: 14-15 & 18. This self-sabotaging war is within every man and woman. That is why people hunger for wholeness.
We understand wholeness as “Getting it all together in total harmony and peace. It promises something which can be achieved. In Christian spirituality we understand as “always being on the way” rather than having it all together. A “whole” person is aware and reflects on his/her actions, thoughts, feelings.
Wholeness or being whole is a gift from a power greater and higher than us.
A) Wholeness brings contentment and harmony in our lives
2) People who are whole are faithful to the struggles of ongoing