begins to move away from what Father Keating describes as the “Western Model of Spirituality,” a model at variance with the Savior’s teachings. This traditional model is a perspective where external acts of obedience (like rituals or things on a spiritual to-do list) seem more important than internal ways of being. The problem, he points out, with preferring the external over the internal is that though the obedience to external religious acts can look pious and spiritual, the acts can arise, not out of a pure heart of love for God and others, but out of pride and self-centeredness and a
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