moral<\/em> being — defines for the person his life and destiny. We are co-laborers with Christ the Apostle Paul says, and our work aids in the reconstruction and restoration of God’s creation.<\/p>\nThese thoughts may not seem related to helping a man in need. But small decisions can have large consequences and often they do. How was your life changed by, say, a considerate teacher, a few key words from a parent or friend, or any other helping hand along the way? <\/p>\n
When we help each other, the world changes. The world is not changed solely for the person we helped. It also brings a measure of harmony, order, goodness, coherence, purpose, meaning, beauty and so forth into being that was not there before. In that way we too are creators, although our creativity works towards restoring that which is already created. <\/p>\n
The world was created good and by helping one another we partake with Christ in the salvation of it. The disciples asked Jesus what are the greatest commandments? Jesus answered, Love the Lord your God with all your heart, soul, body, mind, and strength. And love your neighbor as yourself. On these two commandments hang all the Law and the Prophets. <\/p>\n
Do this, and the work of Christ in redeeming the creation in which we live, is furthered. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Thank you to everyone who contributed to the Fr. John Peck appeal. As many of you know Fr. John is in transition and your contribution helped pay the rent, fix the car, and other necessary things to keep him going as he stabilizes his future. Fr. John is a tenacious man and will land on […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":12308,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1784],"tags":[1837,1838,1454],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aoiusa.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12295"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aoiusa.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aoiusa.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aoiusa.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aoiusa.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12295"}],"version-history":[{"count":26,"href":"https:\/\/www.aoiusa.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12295\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12329,"href":"https:\/\/www.aoiusa.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12295\/revisions\/12329"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aoiusa.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12308"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aoiusa.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12295"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aoiusa.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12295"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aoiusa.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12295"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}