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Crossing the Christian’s Boundaries By Laurence Gonzaga Hi Laurence - Had a question for you--- I have been reading a book on dealing with a loved with a mental health condition, and one of the things it talks about is the importance of boundaries -- to my uneducated mind on matters of psychology, i see there being a conflict with setting boundaries and that of basically Christ's all and totally giving example -- giving to the point of death. Do you have insights on how one may and must set appropriate boundaries on their relationships with people that does not necessarily set aside the example of Christ, or efforts to say, heroic virtue of serving another. [My only guess is that, when dealing with some people, by giving so much of oneself that it enables a person, and in no way helps them with their redemption or self improvement, etc...]. Appreciate if you can offer a few words of insight, I know you've studied psychology and theology so you could help me understand how t...

Written 2 April 2010 For the past two years or so, the spine of one particular book had been looking back at me from the same place on the shelf I had placed it after I bought it. Like many books on my shelves, I had read small parts of it before it was placed on the "queue" to be read at a later time. The book is titled Real Life, Real Love by Father Alberto Cutie, who was at the time a Roman Catholic priest of the Archdiocese of Miami. An interesting last name, especially if you don't notice the accent mark on the "e", considering the news that broke in early 2009 when he was caught on the beaches of Miami with his mistress of a few years. After reading about all that last year, it almost surely placed this book, in my mind, on the bottom of the list to be read from my collection. Since then, and hearing of other stories of other "orthodox" priests, at least seemingly or publicly, it created a sort of "loss of faith", to some degree, fo...