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The Final Document of the second session of the Sixteenth Ordinary General Assembly of the Synod recounts and relaunches an experience of Church as communion, participation, and mission, with a concrete proposal of a new vision that overturns established practices. #SynodOnSynodality #SynodalChurch ... See MoreSee Less

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FEAST OF SAINTS SIMON AND JUDE: Praying is establishing normal relations between God and ourselves. It is converting, returning our spirit, our heart, our will towards God who is constantly our Father and our Creator. Prayer is already love. It asks for love; it receives love. But because we are sinners it will always be at times heavy-going, painful, and disconcerting. From one angle it is already love. From another it is a kind of necessary but voluntary virtue.But the person who has to pray, who has to offer his being to the interior movement of the Spirit that says "Abba, Father," is a person with a particular temperament, in a particular life situation, at a particular moment in history, in the midst of a particular group of human beings and burdened with particular temptations. He lives in a vast house or one overpopulated room; he works in silence or in the midst of tumultuous noise; he has to struggle against solitude or against the pressures of the mob. It is out of this whole amalgam that his form of prayer must emerge, the kind of prayer he makes in the morning and the kind of prayer he makes at evening.When there appears to be a conflict between the demands of fraternal charity and prayer in the matter of time, it will often be useful to review the amount of time that we spend in occupations that are of little value. But we must also see whether, in our desire to avoid a precise act of love that is being asked of us and which will cost us a good deal, we are not substituting a slice of obligatory prayer time that would be preferable to a time which would involve a meeting with one or other of our brethren. If our love were really supernatural it would itself drive us to prayer. And prayer in its turn would help us prevent our love from becoming too “spiritual.”-- Venerable Madeleine Delbrêl ... See MoreSee Less

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