What does the notion of “offence against God” mean? … If I sin, something that God wanted and loved will eternally not be. This, by my own initiative. I am thus the cause – negating cause – of a privation in regards to God, a privation as regards the term or the effect that he …
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Bad Photography – Good Photography
Prayer makes us see others as they are in the mystery of God. If you pray while keeping bad [mental] photos, you’re certain of the result! With the mystery of God, we can take admirable photos of others and find them again in prayer. Marie-Joseph Le Guillou OP (1920–1990)
Understanding and Humour
We must be transparent to Christ, in the light of the Holy Spirit, with the part of humour necessary. We must always have a bit of humour, because understanding presupposes humour! Marie-Joseph Le Guillou OP (1920–1990)
Naught Else than a Secret, Peaceful, and Loving Infusion from God
Not every word that Saint John of the Cross wrote transliterates from the cloister to the world. Most of his words needs some translation. Here is one that applies equally to all Christians being drawn more deeply and more predominantly into contemplation: By not hindering the operation of infused contemplation that God is bestowing upon …
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Unity in Our Lives
It’s contemplation in the light of the Spirit that is the only measure to assure the unity between prayer and relations to others, between our love for God and our love for our brothers. René Voillaume (1905–2003)
A Single Model
You have a Single Model: Jesus. Don’t look for another. Like Jesus, during his human life, make yourself all things to all people: Arab among Arabs, nomad among nomads, worker among workers… but above all, human among humans. Little Sister Magdeleine (1898–1989)
Talking With Him Everywhere
To be a contemplative means simply this: to turn one’s eyes towards Jesus, everywhere, at work, on the road, in the midst of people, talking with him as if with the person who is most loved in the world. Little Sister Magdeleine (1898–1989)
Grains
Saint Dominic: Grain rots in the heap but is fruitful when sown. The Gospel: Very truly, I tell you, unless a grain of wheat falls into the earth and dies, it remains just a single grain; but if it dies, it bears much fruit. (Jn 12:24 NRSV) Blessed Charles de Foucauld: If the grain of wheat that has …
The Hidden Rhythm of the Eternity of God
Everyone who lives… a contemplative vocation is, to some extent, removed from the dramatic course of time to advance towards the hidden rhythm of the eternity of God and to establish his true peace. Jean-Marie Cardinal Lustiger (1926–2007)
And In This Lies Their Strength
Father René Voillaume, Little Brother of Jesus (1905–2003): Christians will continue to be caught in this dilemma. Either they will appear to be strangers in the world, unable to accept its tasks without reservation, or they will have to deny the authenticity of their faith, while yielding to the temptation to rethink its formulation, if not its content, …
Contemplative in the Mud 