Topic: Sharing Christ’s love with someone
Lectio Divina– see reading below |
9:00-9:10 |
Questions on spiritual direction to date |
9:10-9:15 |
Review of When the Well Runs Dry |
9:15-9:25 |
Turning discernment into fruit – Fr. Mike and Jerry |
9:25-9:45 |
A taste of individual spiritual direction |
9:45-10:45 |
Jerry’s question: How do you prepare yourself to receive Christ’s love? Fr. Mike’s question: What are your reflections on Communicating with God by spirit (as St. John of the Cross describes it) otherwise known as contemplation in your life now? Movie: Life of the Beloved, Henry Nouwen |
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Spiritual direction – next steps |
10:45-10:50 |
Stretch challenge |
10:50-10:55 |
Closing prayer |
10:55 |
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Lectio Divina – John 15:12-17
“This is my commandment, that you love one another as I have loved you. No one has greater love than this, to lay down one’s life for one’s friends. You are my friends if you do what I command you. I do not call you servants any longer, because the servant does not know what the master is doing; but I have called you friends, because I have made known to you everything that I have heard from my Father. You did not choose me but I chose you. And I appointed you to go and bear fruit, fruit that will last, so that the Father will give you whatever you ask him in my name. I am giving you these commands so that you may love one another.
Additional reference materials:
Catechism: Thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven https://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0015/_PA9.HTM
Life of the Beloved, Henry Nouwen – YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N1Y8OQjr1gY&t=2292s