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10/20/11 cblog ORTHOPRAXY WITHOUT ORTHODOXY IS ONLY HALF of the EQUATION; Omgc 8a “a little paragraph re today’s saint..”she was an augustinian ..one of many martyrs in japan.17th c ..her parents had been martyred ..her torture & death..brutal…died age 23 .. today’s gospel ..given the historical circumstances..conflict was inevitable..maybe what this gospel is reflecting..sep of jewish christians & non-christians of 1st century..christians were rejecting what was too specifically jewish..incl day of worship, days of fasting, ..but the biggest thing they rejected was the orthopraxis.. these jewish people were united around the temple…some didn’t believe in life after death or a personal rshp w god, some did ..christians reacted against the orthopraxis of judaism ..with orthodoxy..putting what is believed being more imp than just motions & rituals ..apostles creed created .. ..the split became deep..re primary values Rom 6:19-23 Brothers and sisters: I am speaking in human terms because of the weakness of your nature. For just as you presented the parts of your bodies as slaves to impurity and to lawlessness for lawlessness, so now present them as slaves to righteousness for sanctification. For when you were slaves of sin, you were free from righteousness. But what profit did you get then from the things of which you are now ashamed? For the end of those things is death. But now that you have been freed from sin and have become slaves of God, the benefit that you have <b>…</b>