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SUMMARY:LCG Chicago Monthly Meeting 9:00 am CDT
DESCRIPTION:All LCG folk are welcome: \n  \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
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SUMMARY:Vigils reading
DESCRIPTION:SAINT AND MISSION \nFrom “The World of Prayer” by Adrienne von Speyr \n◊◊◊ \nA saint’s standing before God with a community within is no plain and \nsimple fact. The saints can be in God’s presence in such a personal way that\, \ninvoluntarily or even voluntarily\, they forget their mission. And between these \ntwo poles there is a whole spectrum. It may happen involuntarily when God \nalone wishes it so because he wants to have his saint to himself. It happens \nvoluntarily when the saint feels it right on this occasion to be alone in God’s \npresence\, leaving the particular mission out of focus in the background. \nThere is another extreme in relation to these two forms of prayer\, namely\, \nthe prayer of those saints who never appear before God except in the very midst \nof their mission\, whether because God wills it so or because the saint will not \nhave it otherwise. Here too there are gradations. One is inclined to a certain \nsuspicion of those who always do everything completely deliberately and of \ntheir own free will\, choosing whether to go before God with or without the \nmission entrusted to them\, whereas there can be no grounds for suspicion in the \ncase of the saint who\, involuntarily and only as God requires\, is always standing \nbefore God in one sense or another. In general\, however\, there is an alternation: \nThere are times and moments in which the saint is more important to God than \nthe individual mission\, and others when the mission itself is the most important \nthing. \nIf the saints themselves make no choice\, God can work in them or in their \nmission or in both\, within the relationship he chooses. But if the saint and the \nmission constitute a single unity as willed by God\, God’s shaping influence on \nthe one will always benefit the other. \nIt can happen\, then\, that when a particular mission begins to make itself \nfelt it brings difficulties for the saint in standing before God in prayer. But these \ndifficulties and their mastery contribute to the saint’s fruitfulness. They never \ntake the form of insuperable obstacles but of a gain at a higher level\, be it a \ndeeper insight or a better adaptation to God’s will or a closer integration of saint \nand mission. Mission here always means an embodiment of the community. It is \nwhat\, in the saint\, is of and for the community: the seed of community\, a task \nwithin the community\, a fruit entrusted to the community. This fruit is greater \nthan the I; it is the Thou\, in all its manifold forms\, which has been entrusted to \nthe I. Ultimately this multiplicity belongs to the Church and indeed can be the \nChurch.
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CATEGORIES:Vigils Readings
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