HIDDEN 2 CURVES | ENGLISH REFLECTION BY FR MICHEAL MORIS OCD

[00:00:00]Curve [music] in the math. Curve in science. Attention curve. Curve of 7 minutes. There can be seven in a go. There is [music] a decline. Is it a desperate decline? What do you say [music] dear sisters and brothers?

[00:00:25]You know what is a curve?

[00:00:27]Curve in the maths, curve in science, curve in architect, curve in fashion.

[00:00:39]In psychology also we have a curve. It is called attention curve, concentration curve. It starts at zero goes to the maximum at 3 and a half minutes around and decline of the curve at the seventh minute. That's why they say sermon should be not more than 8 minutes. And that's why a period in the school one such curve of 7 minutes there can be seven in a go 49 minutes. So usually a period is 49 minutes a mass is 35 40 40 minutes. Now I want to talk to you about the curve in your life. All of us in our life we have got two curves.

[00:01:37]One starts at the birth mostly for some a bit later and it goes higher and higher and higher.

[00:01:48]Nurturing, education, qualification, celebration of a job, of a big house, of marriage, celebration of the ordination.

[00:02:01]And there is a decline >> [music] >> And that is what I want to speak a little bit about that.

[00:02:12]Now this decline is it a desperate decline? What do you say?

[00:02:22]Sometimes this decline starts early.

[00:02:27]Sometimes in the 50s, 60s or 70s.

[00:02:33]the second curve.

[00:02:36]How do you live this second curve after the first curve?

[00:02:46]The second curve not so much in building houses, amassing money, kissing the wife.

[00:02:55]Of course, the love is there. The second curve consists more in serving, in helping, in mentoring, in deeper relationships of love.

[00:03:12]Arthur Brooks calls it aspend love. AS pen aspen love. It takes long to explain.

[00:03:21]In the second curve, one enjoys solitude, not loneliness. One is happy with solitude.

[00:03:32]One is serene in praying. Nothing it is at stake. One is finding metaphysical practically real. But the problem is this. There are some of us who stick on cling clutch to the first curve.

[00:03:55]Likes, followers, views, presidentiding, big speeches, youthfulness.

[00:04:06]Ever young girl, she doesn't want to show her wrinkles even in her 50s.

[00:04:14]Now this is a misery in famous figures like watch Disney. You are all happy about that person. Read his story. He was clinging to the first curve. Darwin the pioneer of evolution miserable clinging to the first curve.

[00:04:40]Now I come to the topic of today. You might be wondering feast of mother caramel nothing of the scapula.

[00:04:49]I come to that now. Mary like any Jewish girl started her first curve. A beautiful girl, wonderfully growing girl, good education, thorough in Torah, good in cooking, yummy dishes, making clothes and she chose a good handsome young husband.

[00:05:23]She planned of big family and then her first curve sudden ending.

[00:05:36]Hail full of grace. You will bear a son without a husband, without a home.

[00:05:49]What was Mary's reaction?

[00:05:54]What do you say?

[00:05:57]Fiat and fikat. She said, "Okay, the Lord is cutting my first curve. I accept the second curve." And she went to Elizabeth and sang that migat the second curve.

[00:06:16]Two examples how she made a jump to the second curve.

[00:06:22]One example, serving, helping.

[00:06:27]What was the need for her to say they have no wine?

[00:06:34]At the foot of the cross, you heard the gospel.

[00:06:39]She made us his children. And now she is there with a scapular.

[00:06:48]Not magical something but in faith in faith and trust in her mercy it is really a saving I wouldn't say talisman a saving gift from her ending the sermon of today I would suggest that you read Arthur Brooks from strength to strength all about the curve and a small skit, humorous.

[00:07:24]Third, fourth standard children were acting Christmas.

[00:07:30]Joseph, a small boy, and Mary, a lovely girl. They come on the stage. The first one says, "No vacancy, no hotel is full." The second one still more they were told to say mercilessly, "Get out, you on that donkey."

[00:07:53]And the third one, a chubby boy.

[00:07:57]He learned his part by heart. No place in the hotel. Get out. Get out. And this Joseph and Mary literally started crying, weeping.

[00:08:10]When these boys saw them, sh called them back. This is not in the dialogue of the drama, but in my daddy's house there is a room. I will sleep in the corridor. You come and sleep in my room, please.

[00:08:29]Glimpse of the second curve.

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