November e-bulletin

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Alfred Delp, Advent of the Heart, Seasonal Sermons and Prison Writings

 

Christ was placed in the full human condition that we experience without being able to do much about it. It is an extraordinary expression of love. In other words, when you join me in descending into hell, you help release the prisoners of the consequences of their unevolved situation. Just as the immune cells heal the diseased cells that are there, so to be a living cell in the Body of Christ is to have the same disposition of total self-giving or self-surrender, including the willingness to suffer our slice of the human condition for the love of God and the healing of humanity.

We are accountable to everybody else. What you do, I do. What you are doing, your virtue, I can claim. I can also burden you with my vices. Everything is in common.

Thomas Keating, “Redemption,” God is All in All

 

 

Special Event

 

A free event with meditation sponsored by
World Community for Christian Meditation (WCCM)
November 26, 2023, via Zoom
3:00pm – 5:00pm CET (UTC +1), 9am EST (UTC -5)
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Fr. Laurence Freeman OSB, says this about the event: “The news and images of human pain created by inhumanity in Gaza and Ukraine understandably outrage, sicken and depress us. But, like the illness of one body when it is undergone in community, the ordeal of these two places – and so many others – can illuminate the One Body we belong to. That becomes the source of hope and of our hunger and thirst for justice and peace.

“Because of the mystery of oneness revealed in suffering, please join me on online on Sunday 26 November. [We] will convene a community of love in solidarity with those desperately struggling in Ukraine and Gaza and also in extreme loneliness on the streets of our cities, in hospitals and prisons. May we celebrate the healing that comes when we see the grace of oneness revealed.”

For more information on the schedule and to register, go here. 

 

You can read this months bulletin at    https://mailchi.mp/coutreach/2023-nov-e-bulletin?e=9aa0837e74