Revitalizing Our Relationships

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Relationships


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Lines of Action - Relationships

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

Revitalizing Our Relationships

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