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1 5 | he was commenting on Ps 119:50,“This has been my comfort
2 3 | good that we are here’ (Mt 17:4), but he is invited to
3 Int| the sanctified” (Acts 20,32).~Like Paul, in a particularly
4 1 | divina, in numbers 39 and 40:~“...the primacy of holiness
5 5 | was commenting on Ps 119:50,“This has been my comfort
6 3 | produced its effects.(cf. Is. 55) ~From Origen to St. Bernard,
7 1 | choices that are evangelical.~6. And finally, from regularly
8 3 | Consacrata, which quotes it in n. 75, concludes: “The fact that
9 3 | passage quoted by VC (n. 82) places the ability to “
10 1 | brief comment on number 94, which has the title Listening
11 1 | environments, it still is not absent in other forms of consecrated
12 3 | more than one occasion, has absorbed time and attention in such
13 4 | who are in the midst of absorbing activities and endowed with
14 2 | call to the necessity of an abundant and constant presence of
15 3 | for help rises from the abyss (“Out of the depths I cry
16 3 | teach. Work, spend yourself, accept even sufferings and torments,
17 3 | the way of return to Him.~Accepting the Word as a sure way represents
18 2 | sources more immediately accessible and less demanding: special
19 1 | which finds in lectio an acclaimed method, ~was born and perfected
20 3 | much on this aspect, which accompanies the appropriation of the
21 4 | usually also need further ~accompaniment of a guide who puts them
22 3 | realities that precede us, accompany us and await us.~Contemplatio
23 4 | of commitments, courses, accomplishments might consider it a pious
24 4 | forefront.~Without taking into account that the practice of lectio
25 1 | time with the Word, one acquires a sort of ~supernatural
26 5 | no one is dispensed from acquiring as long as they live. When
27 1 | God’s will”, through the acquisition of a new sensitivity to
28 3 | to be contemplativus in actione, to meet God in the human
29 4 | his Words, to repeat his actions, to represent his form of
30 5 | conclusion to a great, very active and very busy Father of ~
31 3 | Church said, makes me an actor in the story of salvation.
32 Int| among all the sanctified” (Acts 20,32).~Like Paul, in a
33 3 | daughter in the Son, an acute awareness of the priority
34 1 | this method, appropriately adapted to the various situations,
35 3 | the recent past.~e) To be added: lectio divina does not
36 3 | Duquoc)~d) Contemplatio additionally places one in condition
37 4 | place to pray”, without adequate time to meet with the Father,
38 3 | subjectivism, which pushes us to adjust things so as to create for
39 3 | of all from amazement and admiration for le mirabilia Dei, the~
40 3 | help the Kingdom of God advance; it is to be in the height
41 3 | but not only-- of a more advanced age.~If it is true that
42 3 | sanctification, but also for the advancement of the Kingdom in the world.~
43 4 | God. Results includethe advantage of a better understanding
44 4 | Lord Jesus effectively and affectively.~The charism of consecrated
45 | again
46 3 | comfortable life and prayer do not agree too well. In these years
47 3 | Occupations then do not alienate from God, but are steps
48 3 | emptiness, or even a dangerous alienation, when it says: “Peter, overcome
49 3 | help me only to contemplata aliis tradere (to recount what
50 3 | s good to repeat) always alluring, is defeated by good. Goodness
51 5 | honesty and toil. But this is altogether another topic. The contribution
52 3 | passions like concupiscence, ambition, a spirit of possession
53 2 | the TV, a real “cathode ambo”, in addition to other persuaders,
54 5 | the Western Church, Saint Ambrose, who, having founded his
55 3 | only the Word of God can announce and communicate it. Only
56 3 | similar to the event of the annunciation of Mary. What happens in
57 4 | that a strong and constant antidote is needed, to resist and
58 3 | poverties, its hopes and anxieties. It is a reading of the
59 | anything
60 3 | difficulties that must be overcome anyway, with patiently focusing
61 4 | life, characterized by the apostles’ way of living ( “apostolica
62 4 | apostles’ way of living ( “apostolica vivendi forma”), who “left
63 2 | obvious things, but from appearances, they are not so always
64 2 | without the assistance of appropriate aids, which keep in mind
65 1 | certainty that this method, appropriately adapted to the various situations,
66 3 | aspect, which accompanies the appropriation of the Word and which permits
67 3 | go to God that is not too arduous, rather soft, often self-serving,
68 4 | and activity in a specific area and not of a gift that comes
69 3 | this point:~a) Contemplatio arises first of all from amazement
70 4 | communicate “true experiences” aroused by the Word; this may be
71 3 | them.~It is the famous “ascend in order to descend” of
72 3 | even higher: “descendite ut ascendatis”; we need to descend in
73 3 | the journey back toward ascent to the heights of contemplation.~
74 3 | But when prayer humbly asks the Spirit to “bend” my
75 1 | brings unity among diverse aspects of the real which are too
76 3 | contemplatio must not be a vague aspiration, destined to leave emptiness,
77 Int| with it and frequenting it assiduously, a practice which gradually
78 2 | experienced guides or without the assistance of appropriate aids, which
79 3 | problems. ~The “for us” can assume a dimension of community
80 3 | pantheistic tones, are all awkward attempts to create one’s own divinity,
81 3 | lectio, which consists in an attentive reading of the text, in
82 2 | the presence of a double attitude:~On the one hand we notice
83 3 | own problems.~These basic attitudes spring from silence, a silence
84 3 | puts us in contact with the authentic will of God, which calls
85 2 | possibility of living a true faith authentically today is made possible and
86 Int| Ineunte, documents especially authoritative and already widely known.~
87 2 | more or less spiritual authors, theological scholars.~On
88 1 | of life or a particular availability of time to delve into the
89 3 | preoccupations so as to fill the available imagination and time, but
90 3 | easily.~Here St. Teresa of Avila’s view of prayer could be
91 3 | exegetical approach helps avoid a certain fundamentalism,
92 3 | precede us, accompany us and await us.~Contemplatio is necessary
93 Int| preview of the dramatic events awaiting him, calls together the
94 3 | revelation of the divine reality awaits us. ~Being immersed into
95 | away
96 3 | pantheistic tones, are all awkward attempts to create one’s
97 3 | would remain insignificant, banal or even disconcerting. It
98 5 | a source of learning or basis of a civilization, but is
99 1 | word of God is brought to bear on life, on which it projects
100 | became
101 3 | that the heart must invoke, beg, entrust itself confidently;
102 3 | diminish their commitment on behalf of humanity; on the contrary,
103 | behind
104 3 | task: “Be converted and believe the good news.”~The Word
105 4 | little, or the realism of a believer who is in mission, or, more
106 3 | remembering me, his love: Look: my Beloved is talking to me and my
107 3 | humbly asks the Spirit to “bend” my rebellious will, when
108 3 | when in great kindness it bends to the most extreme needs,
109 3 | 55) ~From Origen to St. Bernard, from Karl Barth to Vatican
110 | Beside
111 | besides
112 3 | favela” (slum) or in a “bidonville” of the most squalid outskirts
113 3 | the remission of sins gave birth to a body for the Head),
114 3 | and had retires into his blessedness. It is an act of discretion
115 Int| Ours is not a gesture of blind fideism, because we do not
116 3 | can push you to close the book and move on to something
117 4 | entire Sacred Scripture, the books of Scripture can be taken
118 3 | sometimes can appear empty or boring, that can push you to close
119 3 | one thing to meditate in a Brazilian “favela” (slum) or in a “
120 1 | will limit ourselves to a brief comment on number 94, which
121 3 | order that, through the brightness and beauty of good works,
122 1 | divinity and humanity, but also brings unity among diverse aspects
123 4 | expected. A time that can be broken up, between evening and
124 Int| disciples, a missionary brotherhood which has in itself the
125 1 | means the word of God is brought to bear on life, on which
126 Int| created heaven and earth, who builds slowly, patiently, silently
127 3 | get out of ourselves, to burn our omnipresent narcissism,
128 3 | invited to return to the byways of the world in order to
129 2 | you.” (Col 3:16) It is a call to the necessity of an abundant
130 2 | interiority possible, moments of calm listening to and warm welcoming
131 3 | chaste and undivided heart. (Canopi)~
132 Int| ecclesial edifice, an edifice capable of facing all the uncertainties
133 1 | method with the words of Cardinal Martini:~“One of the special
134 3 | programs for themselves to carry out. And it is more according
135 4 | and therefore previous catechesis) that it is not a matter
136 2 | presence of the TV, a real “cathode ambo”, in addition to other
137 Int| practicable by those who are caught up in an overload of work,
138 3 | where the power of good causes the retreat/withdrawal of
139 4 | Word of the Lord seen as central and directional for living
140 3 | place along quite a few centuries and in different cultural
141 1 | force,. with the consequent certainty that this method, appropriately
142 3 | having produced its effects.(cf. Is. 55) ~From Origen to
143 2 | configuration to Him, this challenging orientation, without a daily
144 3 | diverse situations seen not as chance happenings, but as requests
145 3 | Word places me into the channel of God’s action in the world.~
146 4 | by his/her type of life, characterized by the apostles’ way of
147 4 | consecration in a definite charismatic project, with its particular
148 3 | but in the freedom of a chaste and undivided heart. (Canopi)~
149 3 | practiced in two ways; the choice depends on the type of work,
150 3 | conviction that each one can choose her/his own devotions, more
151 3 | question: “what to hope for’”.~Christianity is not or primarily an ethics,
152 3 | Even among the most fervent Christians there is widespread conviction
153 4 | which must be said in these circumstances. We have to be clear here:
154 3 | of Isacco della Stella, a Cistercian Father.~c) Contemplatio
155 3 | outskirts of big third-world cities, and another thing to meditate
156 5 | of learning or basis of a civilization, but is above all the word
157 Int| which gradually took the now classic form of lectio divina. ~
158 4 | circumstances. We have to be clear here: what realism are we
159 4 | requires an unconditional clinging to the Lord Jesus.~Moreover,
160 3 | conditioning, my urges, my closed-ness and my habits.~The Word
161 5 | one of the great cultural codes of humanity; also non-believing
162 2 | find a home with you.” (Col 3:16) It is a call to the
163 2 | exhortation of the letter to the Colossians looks as current as ever: “
164 3 | of the times that must be combined with the meditation of the
165 5 | 119:50,“This has been my comfort in my suffering: that your
166 3 | Teresa used to say that a comfortable life and prayer do not agree
167 Int| perennial way: “And now I commend you to God, and to the word
168 4 | accompanied by some good commentary which helps both the understanding
169 5 | stated one day as he was commenting on Ps 119:50,“This has been
170 3 | into ours, with his Spirit communicating with our spirit, we give
171 3 | the Kingdom, to enter into communion with God, to be immersed
172 3 | brothers, and the fear of comparing my saying with my doing:
173 3 | to encourage it from the comparison of the Word of life just
174 3 | help one enter into the complex, fascinating, but also distant
175 3 | text, in its exegetical component, can also help overcome
176 3 | tenacious individualism in the concept of spirituality, the difficulty
177 3 | patristic doctrine of the conception of the Divine Word in the
178 5 | To conclude~1. Is lectio divina the
179 3 | which quotes it in n. 75, concludes: “The fact that consecrated
180 5 | 3. And now we leave the conclusion to a great, very active
181 3 | illusory and “middle-class” conclusions, as we used to say. ~Moreover,
182 3 | not moved by passions like concupiscence, ambition, a spirit of possession
183 3 | our specific mission.~d) Conditionings~We have to be aware, too
184 2 | concrete situation which conditions us so much.~This leads to
185 3 | invoke, beg, entrust itself confidently; this prayer is the space
186 2 | reproduce this tension toward configuration to Him, this challenging
187 3 | Vatican II, there is a whole confirmed and experienced tradition
188 1 | that one does not become conformed to the mentality of this
189 3 | enlightened, more or less in conformity with “true devotion” which
190 3 | be read in context and in connection with the whole of Biblical
191 3 | in mutual acceptance, the consciousness of the too-well-known personal
192 4 | courses, accomplishments might consider it a pious illusion, one
193 1 | real which are too often considered as separately, that is,
194 3 | times noticeably, for the construction of the new person, regenerated
195 3 | to enter critically and constructively into the fabric of history
196 3 | does not help me only to contemplata aliis tradere (to recount
197 3 | tradere (to recount what was contemplated) almost as though mission
198 3 | terms, Madeleine Delbrel, a contemplative in action, stated: “When
199 3 | but it impels me to be contemplativus in actione, to meet God
200 3 | and in different cultural contexts and as a response to different
201 4 | realism of mission demands continual, fresh, renewed contact
202 3 | of the world in order to continue serving the Kingdom of God: ‘
203 4 | of Jesus: “His reputation continued to grow, and large crowds
204 3 | becomes incarnate and grows, continuing its course through the world.~
205 3 | behalf of humanity; on the contrary, it strengthens this commitment,
206 3 | us through the Word, in contrast to our needs and preferences.~
207 3 | philological and theological kind, contributes to a knowledge of the Bible,
208 3 | hands and my convictions and conveniences, is always lying in ambush. ~
209 3 | necessary, most useful and convenient for me as a response to
210 3 | The One who loves me is conversing with me and I respond to
211 3 | discretion which promotes a conversion of heart in the human being,
212 3 | transformation is the first task: “Be converted and believe the good news.”~
213 3 | that fraternity is the most convincing sign of the presence of
214 2 | able to weigh, critique, correct, upset the mind of the world (
215 3 | All.~And all of this which corresponds to our heart’s deepest desire,
216 3 | their gaze on the Lord’s countenance does not diminish their
217 4 | is needed, to resist and counter-attack.~One of the firm points
218 Int| able to face the future courageously with all its challenges,
219 4 | rhythms of commitments, courses, accomplishments might consider
220 Int| very firm Word of God, who created heaven and earth, who builds
221 3 | of its ability to enter critically and constructively into
222 2 | Dei), is able to weigh, critique, correct, upset the mind
223 4 | continued to grow, and large crowds would gather to hear him
224 3 | presence of Mary helps us to cultivate amazement, to encourage
225 5 | not exempt from using and cultivating the great gift of reason
226 2 | widespread mentality, the leading culture will end up dominating.
227 4 | and to have their sickness cured, but he would always go
228 2 | method of lectio divina. ~The custom of images, in which we are
229 3 | God’s will for me is often cutting, like a two-edged sword:
230 Int| practiced? Isn’t there a danger of falling into a new rhetoric
231 3 | me, to make me more a son/daughter in the Son, an acute awareness
232 Int| as often happens these days?~Legitimate questions, to
233 2 | not infrequent “interior decadence”, of the weakening of our
234 Int| going back to the early decades of the Church, when the
235 3 | intention or purpose, a decision for a day, as consequence
236 4 | nourished orientations and decisions of founders/foundresses,
237 3 | knowledge of the Bible, when one dedicates time to it. And, in practice,
238 3 | consists only in an action deduced from what I meditated, but
239 3 | with serene eyes, of the deep meaning of the present ~
240 4 | can slip away and~personal deepening can often disappear into
241 3 | left to the Spirit for a deeper and renewed understanding
242 3 | corresponds to our heart’s deepest desire, only the Word of
243 4 | for lack of support by a deeply rooted Gospel mentality.~
244 3 | myself be seduced by God, I defeat in myself the seduction
245 4 | But a time that must be defended tooth and nail, ferociously.
246 3 | can also help overcome the deficit of Biblical training for
247 4 | by my consecration in a definite charismatic project, with
248 5 | story of the building of a definitive world, through the happenings
249 3 | uns, and all the horrible deformations of a will of God, more imagined
250 3 | mystical terms, Madeleine Delbrel, a contemplative in action,
251 Int| West is going through a delicate time. It is equally obvious
252 3 | are statements of Isacco della Stella, a Cistercian Father.~
253 1 | availability of time to delve into the Sacred Writngs.~
254 2 | immediately accessible and less demanding: special devotions, more
255 3 | in two ways; the choice depends on the type of work, the
256 3 | Christian life, mystery that derives from placing oneself in
257 3 | ability to go up even higher: “descendite ut ascendatis”; we need
258 3 | intuition of the Fathers of the desert: the Kingdom of God advances
259 1 | writings of the New Testament deserve special veneration, especially
260 3 | the priority that the Word deserves.~The oratio and the invocation
261 2 | Christ’s form of life, one designed to say that today, too,
262 3 | corresponds to our heart’s deepest desire, only the Word of God can
263 3 | it can be a sign that It desires to act in the depths, there
264 3 | since the part cannot be detached from the whole, that the
265 2 | Word normally is able to develop its action in a climate
266 3 | in conformity with “true devotion” which is that which springs
267 3 | handy” and imperceptible diaphragm between me and the Word.~
268 4 | inevitably and, often solely, didactic and intellectual.~We need
269 3 | leads to the Father”, he didn’t mean only to state that
270 4 | but not the lectio. “Nullo die sine pagina”.~But is what
271 3 | practice often involves.~The difference in mentality, in cultural
272 4 | which certainly has its dignity, but is something different
273 3 | Lord’s countenance does not diminish their commitment on behalf
274 4 | Lord seen as central and directional for living the whole Gospel.~
275 3 | personally, keeping in mind the directions of the Church and the Institute.~
276 4 | personal deepening can often disappear into emptiness.~c) For some
277 1 | one’s mind “in order to discern God’s will”, through the
278 1 | inspired by these texts in ...discerning the charism and mission
279 5 | continually required of a disciple by the Lord, and is continually
280 2 | to rediscover or enable a discipline, an ability to made priority
281 3 | blessedness. It is an act of discretion which promotes a conversion
282 3 | free history from all that disfigures it.”~b) From amazement to
283 5 | things, and which no one is dispensed from acquiring as long as
284 3 | complex, fascinating, but also distant and sometimes even disconcerting
285 1 | those who live in very diversified situations.~3. “...the writings
286 3 | rediscover the patristic doctrine of the conception of the
287 3 | comparing my saying with my doing: are all real difficulties
288 2 | leading culture will end up dominating. It is necessary to be convinced
289 3 | spirit of possession or dominion, but in the freedom of a
290 4 | source of mission. Otherwise don’t speak of mission, but
291 2 | bring out the presence of a double attitude:~On the one hand
292 Int| Jerusalem, as preview of the dramatic events awaiting him, calls
293 1 | of lectio divina, which draws from the biblical text the
294 3 | beyond the passions and drives that normally guide human
295 3 | my thought drowns and the drowning in this sea is sweet to
296 3 | this immensity my thought drowns and the drowning in this
297 3 | which escapes us.~Certain dry meditations, when they are
298 2 | decline, as in a spiritual drying up (withering), which renders
299 3 | object of contemplation.” (Duquoc)~d) Contemplatio additionally
300 | during
301 4 | with its consequent daily duties, with its necessary and
302 4 | illusion, one of the many dutiful statements which must be
303 5 | to manage works or treat earthly realities, then rationality
304 5 | which is neither obvious nor easy even for consecrated persons)
305 3 | present ~situation. “The eclipse of God is not God’s withdrawal,
306 4 | to follow the Lord Jesus effectively and affectively.~The charism
307 3 | without having produced its effects.(cf. Is. 55) ~From Origen
308 1 | method that is specially efficacious for transferring the word
309 3 | fraternity, then it is worth the effort to face the difficulties
310 3 | often self-serving, always egocentric and self-referential.~The
311 | either
312 5 | powerfully to acquire the third element, that is personal detachment,
313 | else
314 3 | for us”: the~meditatio can embrace the whole gamut of the mystery
315 2 | On the other hand there emerges an urgency to resume a vital
316 3 | to him, experiencing the emotion of being the object of his
317 4 | place.~It is true that some emphases on the charism, in these
318 3 | that sometimes can appear empty or boring, that can push
319 2 | realistically, to rediscover or enable a discipline, an ability
320 3 | strengthens this commitment, enabling it to have an impact on
321 3 | the letting oneself be enchanted and seduced by the mystery
322 3 | cultivate amazement, to encourage it from the comparison of
323 3 | not, reprove, exhort, give encouragement using all your forbearance
324 5 | calls, provokes, sustains, encourages: it is a lamp for our steps
325 5 | Lord, and is continually endangered by “the old man”. ~There
326 3 | that by now everything’s ended. Instead, this is the favorable
327 4 | absorbing activities and endowed with different sensitivities.~
328 3 | its demands and my poor energies, between the radicalness
329 3 | possible “to contemplate” in an enjoyable and savory way every day.
330 1 | which one is found. And it enlightens in view of making choices
331 | enough
332 Int| in following its course, entered into new lands to proclaim
333 2 | our communities are also entrapped by the obsessive presence
334 3 | heart must invoke, beg, entrust itself confidently; this
335 3 | moment, because it permits entry into the divine world, from
336 1 | and perfected in monastic environments, it still is not absent
337 2 | more or less hidden. The erosion of the Christian mentality
338 3 | to plan one’s own way to escape present misery and future
339 3 | which She/He knows and which escapes us.~Certain dry meditations,
340 4 | nourishing religious and eschatological motivation (the penultimate
341 3 | reaffirm that it is God who establishes the way of return to Him.~
342 3 | of a faithful soul, for eternity”. These are statements of
343 3 | different religious and ethical questions.~
344 3 | Christianity is not or primarily an ethics, but a promise: the promise
345 3 | meditatio an occasion to evade a responsibility to our
346 3 | thinking and mine, between his evaluations and mine, between his requests
347 1 | face reality from God’s evaluative point of view.~The other
348 3 | appear most indistinct or evanescent. Also because the mind,
349 3 | perseveringly, similar to the event of the annunciation of Mary.
350 Int| preview of the dramatic events awaiting him, calls together
351 3 | the retreat/withdrawal of ever-seductive forces of evil, the Reign
352 | Everyone
353 | everywhere
354 3 | a dimension of community examination in light of the Word, which
355 3 | Reign and if it is true that examining ourselves periodically on
356 4 | evening and morning, for example. But a time that must be
357 3 | these years we have also had examples of ideologized readings,
358 3 | marvels of God. It is the excitement, the letting oneself be
359 3 | of the Transfiguration, exclaims: ‘Lord, it is good that
360 3 | should be neglected.~A good exegesis, of the more strictly philological
361 5 | that a Christian is not exempt from using and cultivating
362 3 | when it is not, reprove, exhort, give encouragement using
363 4 | for spiritual depth and existential intuition...~d) As to the
364 4 | consecrated life, the Psalms, Exodus, the Song of Songs...~Here
365 5 | frequenting of the Word, one can ~expect of consecrated persons the
366 4 | the ~half-hour normally expected. A time that can be broken
367 3 | opening my heart to him, experiencing the emotion of being the
368 3 | my habits.~The Word which expresses God’s will for me is often
369 1 | Gospel word express with extraordinarily effective formulas both
370 3 | kindness it bends to the most extreme needs, then with much vigor
371 3 | lectio divina~Keeping our eye on our everyday reality,
372 3 | constructively into the fabric of history and of not making
373 Int| we look into each others’ faces to ask each other, along
374 Int| edifice, an edifice capable of facing all the uncertainties posed
375 3 | speakers and fulfillers (“facitori e realizzatori”) of the
376 5 | because new readings cannot fail to shed light on the extraordinary
377 Int| Isn’t there a danger of falling into a new rhetoric that
378 5 | sensitivity), and as it familiarizes with God’s ways, it refines
379 3 | us and in our religious family, is similar to that of the
380 3 | to serve them.~It is the famous “ascend in order to descend”
381 5 | here and now to approach as far as possible the holy will
382 3 | meditate in a Brazilian “favela” (slum) or in a “bidonville”
383 3 | ended. Instead, this is the favorable moment, the “kairos”, the
384 3 | it. And, in practice, is favored when this first part is
385 3 | sisters/brothers, and the fear of comparing my saying with
386 4 | liturgical lectionary, both feastday and~weekday; this promotes
387 3 | to be so habitual as to feel, and therefore, make felt,
388 3 | object of his attention, feeling all his tenderness for me,
389 4 | defended tooth and nail, ferociously. The power of the world
390 3 | idolatry.~Even among the most fervent Christians there is widespread
391 Int| is not a gesture of blind fideism, because we do not imagine
392 3 | requests of God who wishes my filial response. It’s a question
393 3 | preoccupations so as to fill the available imagination
394 3 | place protected from various filters, that is, without many big
395 1 | are evangelical.~6. And finally, from regularly spending
396 3 | that consecrated persons fix their gaze on the Lord’s
397 Int| nourishment of the little flock was the Word of the Lord,
398 3 | overcome anyway, with patiently focusing on long times, in view of
399 4 | in mission today, as his followers, also need it?~The realism
400 3 | encouragement using all your forbearance and ability to teach. Work,
401 1 | contact with its transforming force,. with the consequent certainty
402 4 | theological life in the forefront.~Without taking into account
403 5 | text.~But we should not forget that the Bible is not only
404 4 | especially the Gospels, without forgetting those most loved by the
405 4 | living ( “apostolica vivendi forma”), who “left everything”
406 1 | still is not absent in other forms of consecrated life, even
407 1 | extraordinarily effective formulas both anthropological and
408 5 | sustains and transforms life.~Fortunately today the Bible is being
409 5 | interest, as it is one of the foundations of the West. And that is
410 5 | Saint Ambrose, who, having founded his basic formation on Scripture,
411 5 | our time and for our time?~Fr. Pier Giordano Cabra, fn~
412 3 | its requirements and my frail determination, between what
413 Int| the tensions of the often frenetic activities of our times,
414 4 | mission demands continual, fresh, renewed contact with the
415 3 | intimate relationship of friendship, a staying completely alone
416 4 | Experience also tells us that in front of texts that are repeated,
417 2 | what touches this point, fruit of a firm resolution to
418 3 | poets”, that is speakers and fulfillers (“facitori e realizzatori”)
419 3 | death where God will be our fulfillment, our All.~And all of this
420 3 | moment in order to reach fullness beyond death where God will
421 3 | to be in the height of (fully engaged in) mission~The “
422 3 | approach helps avoid a certain fundamentalism, too, typical of an ingenuous
423 | further
424 3 | Christ who lives in me.” (Gal 2:20)~a) Also the Apostolic
425 3 | meditatio can embrace the whole gamut of the mystery of Christian
426 3 | symbolized in the Lord’s white garments’” The passage is from Augustine.
427 4 | and large crowds would gather to hear him and to have
428 3 | in the remission of sins gave birth to a body for the
429 3 | consecrated persons fix their gaze on the Lord’s countenance
430 3 | Verbo”) “is said in a general way for the Church (who
431 3 | Mary (who without any sin generated the Head for the body),
432 3 | faithful soul.~Regarding the generation of the Divine Word (“Verbo”) “
433 4 | which often has produced genuine jewels for spiritual depth
434 Int| new times.~Ours is not a gesture of blind fideism, because
435 3 | is necessary in order to get out of ourselves, to burn
436 5 | Pier Giordano Cabra, FN, giordano@cabra.it~
437 3 | action states.~The heart’s glance, made more penetrating,
438 3 | In addition it allows a glimpse, with serene eyes, of the
439 3 | determination, between what I have glimpsed and what I find myself being,
440 5 | and victorious, humble and glorious, slain lamb and triumphant
441 4 | Gospel reading “without~glossing” then is revivified: the
442 5 | is rescued and led to its goal by the presence of the Word,
443 3 | on long times, in view of goals that are difficult to reach
444 3 | think of the jihad, of the Gott mit uns, and all the horrible
445 Int| and to the word of his grace that has power to build
446 Int| assiduously, a practice which gradually took the now classic form
447 3 | because with his heart grafted into ours, with his Spirit
448 3 | a condition in order to grasp the invisible of the Kingdom
449 3 | the divine realities.~St. Gregory, in a passage quoted by
450 1 | people of God. Some ecclesial groups practice it regularly and
451 3 | Word becomes incarnate and grows, continuing its course through
452 3 | with one’s daily life.~The growth of the Word (“Parola”) and
453 2 | Permitting oneself to be guided by the Word of God, especially
454 2 | follow without experienced guides or without the assistance
455 3 | urges, my closed-ness and my habits.~The Word which expresses
456 3 | confronting ought to be so habitual as to feel, and therefore,
457 4 | Certainly not less than the ~half-hour normally expected. A time
458 3 | satiety that has become a “handy” and imperceptible diaphragm
459 4 | homogeneous communities. It is harder with heterogeneous communities
460 3 | point least understood, the hardest and also the one which can
461 Int| beautiful in themselves, but hardly practicable by those who
462 3 | here the possibility of harmonizing various great spiritualities
463 Int| Word of God, who created heaven and earth, who builds slowly,
464 3 | destined to inhabit the new heavens and the new earth.~In addition
465 3 | advance; it is to be in the height of (fully engaged in) mission~
466 1 | called lectio divina has been held in the highest regard. By
467 3 | is indispensable, (it is helpful to repeat this), but not
468 | herself
469 5 | our heart, often lost and hesitant.~This interpretative river
470 4 | communities. It is harder with heterogeneous communities who are in the
471 2 | persuaders, more or less hidden. The erosion of the Christian
472 3 | which the Word of the Most High still resounds.~Such a previous
473 4 | with the Word orients me in highlighting the Gospel quality of my
474 3 | action, stated: “When we hold the Gospel in our hands,
475 1 | and 40:~“...the primacy of holiness and prayer is inconceivable
476 2 | all its richness, find a home with you.” (Col 3:16) It
477 3 | the infinite, into our homeland, where our identity lives,
478 4 | with young people and with homogeneous communities. It is harder
479 5 | commitment, dedication, honesty and toil. But this is altogether
480 3 | possibilities and poverties, its hopes and anxieties. It is a reading
481 3 | Gott mit uns, and all the horrible deformations of a will of
482 3 | not to withdraw into or hover in vain over our own problems.~
483 3 | our homeland, where our identity lives, and where the full
484 3 | have also had examples of ideologized readings, or pre-understandings
485 3 | which consists in serving an idol, work of my hands and my
486 3 | things”, as the typically Ignatian spirituality of action states.~
487 3 | from Karl Barth to Vatican II, there is a whole confirmed
488 3 | the “kairos”, the time of illumination and salvation, the space
489 2 | lectio divina. ~The custom of images, in which we are immersed,
490 3 | as to fill the available imagination and time, but rather it
491 3 | deformations of a will of God, more imagined than accepted.~This first
492 3 | typical of an ingenuous and immediate approach to a text. The
493 3 | sense of veneration for the immense God who is speaking to me
494 3 | eternal: “thus among this immensity my thought drowns and the
495 3 | communicate it. Only the Word can immerse us into the eternal, the
496 3 | enabling it to have an impact on history, in order to
497 3 | that otherwise can appear impassable.~Since the Spirit him/herself
498 3 | what I meditated, but it impels me to be contemplativus
499 5 | world which can appear quite impenetrable to the action of the Word
500 3 | has become a “handy” and imperceptible diaphragm between me and
501 2 | mentality happens slowly, almost imperceptibly, day after day, even with
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