revitalizing our relationships
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To revitalize our relationships, let us go beyondwhat already exists to:
Give a new impetus to our spiritual life so that in ourCommunities we among ourSisters for the Mission
Develop at work in the livesof peoples and in events in the world. In the light of this,discern individually and communally the values and counter-values to todays culture.
Intensify our proximity of life and heart
Create joyful communities where as anenrichment.
Encourage on
all levels.
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Turning the Ordinary into theExtraordinary
Sacramental principle
Sharing bread and wineBody and Blood of Christ
Pouring of waterCleansing from sin
Sharing a lifeTaste of the Divine Intimacy
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SacramentsNot things
Actions
Training Wheels for the eyes of faith heard and forgot saw and remembered
did and understood
Eucharist in Johns Gospelfoot washing
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Give a new impetus to our spiritual life so that in ourCommunities weamong our brothers and sisters for the Mission
ContemplationSpiritual direction
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The Divine Intimacy/communion - Trinity
Unity, equality Diversity
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Challenge to see every Eucharist as imageof The Eternal Banquet
Unity, equality
Diversity
Eucharistic Banquet as image, symbol,pictogram of eternal communion
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Challenge to see every MEAL aseucharistic
"this is what it must be like"
celebrating table fellowship as foretaste ofdivinedraw on the experience of social intimacy
until we meet again around the heavenly table
keeping alive the experience and memory andthe hope Past, present, future
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Challenge to see every RELATIONSHIP as eucharisticCelebrating human relationships, images of the
divine
"this is what it is supposed to be like."
Recreating the elements of divine intimacyDrawing on table vision to recreate even now
see every experience of intimacy as a minieucharist
cultivating and treasuring moments of intimacy
and communityyet not confusing them with the goal
keeping alive the experience and memory
perfume, sound of voice, touch
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Eucharist as prayer of actionReliving our our moments of peak awareness
that we are one
Contemplation in action
In the action you understand God fromwithin the action
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DO this in Memory of me - EucharistDanger of missing the point, limiting our
understandingPrisoner of the tabernacle
Individualism
Exclusivism
Dont just celebrate what I have doneDO what I have done- POUR OUT YOUR
LIFE
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Divine Intimacy Eternal banquet
Eucharistic banquet
Ordinary meals Social relationships
Marital intimacy
All point to the Divine Communion
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It is always important to speak aboutcommunity concretely.
"The person who loves his dream ofcommunity more than the realcommunity itself destroys community.- Dietrich Bonhoefer
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Table graphic
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Who sat at Jesus table?
'the immoral' (prostitutes and sinners)
'the marginalized' (lepers and sick people)
'heretics' (samaritans and pagans)
'collaborators' (publicans and soldiers)
'the weak' and 'the poor' (who have neither power norknowledge)
those who have no place receive a place
those who have a place in social life often don't havea place in Jesus' company.
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Who sits at our table?Physically
Emotionally
What is the shape of our table?
Square, oblong
Round
Create joyful communities where diversity is accepted asan enrichment
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Who sits at our table?Do we all look alike?
How universal is our community
Implications for vocations?
Even if we all look alike, do we have emotional roomfor diferences?
Introverts, extroverts
School sisters, hospital sisters, etc. Gifted, less gifted
Favored, less favored
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Develop greater attentiveness to theSpirit at work in the lives of peoplesand in events in the world.
Transforming the Ordinary into theExtraordinary