Shalom, Shalom
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Today was one of those rare Sundays when I had no liturgical role but to
worship. Coming off of the Holy Week, Easter Week, Divine Mercy cycle I
have bee...
Monday, March 30, 2009
Sigh. I'm trying not to live the next few months as an endless countdown. I know I need to live in the present. I know I need to keep engaging my life now, not starting August 15. It's really hard sometimes though, especially when the "now" is unpleasant. Any advice? Sometimes I don't even know where to start.
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I think giving yourself permission to be excited and happy about the entering the cloister in August is a good place to start. I also think that the reality of being admitted as an aspirant ought to be a bit sobering, as there is still a lot of discernment ahead of you. True discernment can only happen through experience.
I also think that what lies ahead is more difficult than what has transpired to this point. Monastic life is not yet a lived reality for you, but is still a bit of romantic idea. This is okay, romance is good, without it nobody would begin a great journey, like marriage, religious life, or priesthood.
You'll resist these ideas as somehow not applicable, but they are and you will know that in time as well, regardless of how the journey ends.
Hi! The CL prayer, "Veni Sancte Spiritus, Veni per Mariam" helps me to stay in the present. If Christ is with me here and now, and if I can open myself to his Presence in the here and now, then what else do I need? If the present is unpleasant, then it is in unpleasantness that Christ seeks to meet you (as he surely will in the convent, as Scott so kindly points out!). Pay attention to him here and now so that you won't miss him. He is proposing something so great for you in everything (always and everywhere -- as you yourself remind the rest of us!).
They know theyrselves...!
I always entrust Him and always say "This is for the glory of Christ", even in front of a soup for dinner or my father punishing me for something right...
What is glory? "Gloria dei vivens homo". Everyday's life and everyday's people who entrust him are his glory.
Heaven Showers down blessing on you.
Andrea Cristiano
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