1. O UT OF C APTIVITY (6) Association... Great Lent 2013

2. G REAT L ENT 2013: O UT OF C APTIVITY ① Superficial relationship with God ② Pizza Slice or Bicycle Hub ③ Selective hearing and selective reading ④ Dyparentification ⑤ Syncretism ⑥ Association

3. (S T. J OHN C HRYSOSTOM )  Hope drives us to the top, and cures us! Never be worried nor in despair lest your hope becomes in vain

4. A SSOCIATION  Although the idea of a link between conceptions had already been developed in ancient philosophy, especially by Plato and Aristotle, the term “association” was introduced by the British philosopher J. Locke only in 1698

5. T HE P ROBLEMS OF A SSOCIATION 1) Connecting things in the mind in abnormal or normal way. 2) It sees one option as the only option. 3) It makes the abnormal normal. 4) Choosing the wrong path 5) Ignoring the scriptures’ message

6. 1. I GNORING THE SCRITURES ’ MESSAGE  3 knowing this first: that scoffers will come in the last days, walking according to their own lusts, 4 and saying, “Where is the promise of His coming? For since the fathers fell asleep, all things continue as they were from the beginning of creation.” 2 Pet 3:3,4

7. 2. O NE WAY OF H EALING  5 Now a certain man was there who had an infirmity thirty-eight years. 6 When Jesus saw him lying there, and knew that he already had been in that condition a long time, He said to him, “ Do you want to be made well ?” 7 The sick man answered Him, “Sir, I have no man to put me into the pool when the water is stirred up; but while I am coming, another steps down before me.” Jn 5:5-7

8. 3. C HOOSING THE WRONG P ATH  And David said in his heart, “ Now I shall perish someday by the hand of Saul. There is nothing better for me than that I should speedily escape to the land of the Philistines; and Saul will despair of me, to seek me anymore in any part of Israel. So I shall escape out of his hand.” 1 Sam 27:1

9. S AINT E PHREM T HIS EXCERPT FROM A COMMENTARY ON THE D IATESSARON BY S AINT E PHREM (1, 18- 19: SC 121, 52-53) The word of God is a tree of life that offers us blessed fruit from each of its branches. It is like that rock which was struck open in the wilderness, from which all were offered spiritual drink. As the Apostle says: They ate spiritual food and they drank spiritual drink.