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SUMMARY:Vigils Reading
DESCRIPTION:OUR STRUGGLE \nIN SEARCH OF TRUTH \nBy Thomas Merton7 \n◊◊◊ \nLife is\, or should be\, nothing but a struggle to seek truth: yet what we seek \nis really the truth that we already possess. Truth is mine in the reality of life as it \nis given to me to live: yet to take life thoughtlessly\, passively as it comes\, is to \nrenounce the struggle and purification which are necessary. One cannot simply \nopen his eyes and see. The work of understanding involves not only dialectic\, \nbut a long labor of acceptance\, obedience\, liberty\, and love. The temptation of \nmonastic life is to evade this austere responsibility by falling back into passive \nindifference\, thinly veiled resentment disguised as obedience and \nabandonment. Since in fact one need not positively accept what happens\, one \ncan be merely resigned and negative. \nOthers make all the important decisions: but the most important decision \nalways falls to me\, and if I am in the habit of never deciding\, I will evade it. The \nroot decision to accept my own life and to obey its demands may challenge my \nunderstanding of those demands\, my honesty in their regard. The worst \ntemptation\, and that to which many monks succumb early in their lives\, and by \nwhich they remain defeated\, is simply to give up asking and seeking. To leave \neverything to the superiors in this life and to God in the next – a hope which may \nin fact be nothing but a veiled despair\, a refusal to live. And it is not Christian to \ndespair of the present\, merely putting off hope into the future. There is also a \nvery essential hope that belongs in the present\, and is based on the nearness of \nthe hidden God\, and of His Spirit\, in the present. What future can make sense \nwithout this present hope? \nEvil and falsity are unavoidable: but one does not bow down to them \npassively and without response. Resignation is not enough. God demands of us \na creative consent\, in our deepest and most hidden self\, the self we do not \nexperience\, though it is always there. This creative consent is the obedience of \nmy whole being to the will of God\, here and now. The inner “word” of consent is \nthe coincidence\, in the Spirit\, the identity of my own obedience and will with the \nobedience and will of Christ. Such is the depth of our Sonship and of the life of \ngrace. \nGradually\, by accepting our place in the world and our tasks as they are\, \nwe come to be liberated from the limitations of the world and of a restricted\, \nhalfhearted milieu: yet one is content with one’s moment of history and one’s \nobscure task in it. One must be detached from systems and collective plans\, \nwithout rancor toward them\, but with insight and compassion. To be truly \nCatholic is not merely to be correct according to an abstractly universal \nstandard of truth\, but also and above all to be able to enter into the problems \nand the joys of all\, to understand all\, to be all things to all persons. This \ncannot be done if we do not first completely and honestly accept ourselves\, \nour own problems\, our own defeats\, with the creative consent and \nresponsibility that unite us to God’s will and thus to the dynamism of history \nin its very source. \n  \n7 Conjectures of a Guilty Bystander\, by Thomas Merton\, Doubleday & Co. 1966\, pp.166-167.15
URL:https://laycisterciansofgethsemani.org/event/vigils-reading-298/
CATEGORIES:Vigils Readings
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SUMMARY:LCG Chicago April 12\, 2025\, Meeting 9:00 am CDT
DESCRIPTION:All in LCG are invited to join our Chicago Zoom meeting.  9:00 am CDT on April 12\, 2025. \nJoin Zoom Meeting \nhttps://us02web.zoom.us/j/86028356465 \nMeeting ID: 860 2835 6465 \nOne tap mobile \n+13126266799\,\,86028356465# US (Chicago) \n+13092053325\,\,86028356465# US \n  \n9:00 Gather for Opening prayer. \nWe also pray for all our lay Cistercian sisters and brothers in the US and around the world.  Specially we pray for our Gethsemani monks.  Finally\, we pray this month specially for: \nBr. Luke Armour \nFr. Andrew McAughan \n 9:10 Lectio. Our lectio piece will be led by Robert Johnson. \n 9:50 Reading.  Our reading this month is the first 50 pages (through Part III) of The Impact of God by Fr. Iain Matthew.Does St. John of the Cross sharpen your Lenten journey? \n10:45 Housekeeping.   Volunteer to lead lectio next month?  Chicago Report on LCG Advisory Council activity.  Plans for international meeting in 2025 and Anglophone lead-ins thereto. \n11:00 Update.   Share how the Holy Spirt has entered our lives as lay Cistercians since our last meeting. \n11:45 Closing worship and prayer.  We will pray the liturgical hour of None as with our Gethsemani monks (identical Psalms as done today at Gethsemani Abbey.) \nOur next meeting: May 10\, 2025. \n 
URL:https://laycisterciansofgethsemani.org/event/lcg-chicago-april-12-2025-meeting-900-am-cdt/
CATEGORIES:LCG Local Community Meetings,LCG open events
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