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RThomas
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Greetings to everyone in Christ!
I only recently found this forum, and I am very happy to discover the “spirit” here - thank you,all.
My concern, and my apostolate, is renewal in the Church. The Pope has been pointing us toward renewal, and urging us toward renewal, in almost countless ways throughout his pontificate. I am saddened to continue to find so much verbal assent to his call, but so little “full, conscious and active” participation along the actual road to renewal.
Perhaps the greatest obstacles to renewal are the lukewarm hearts, and the poorly formed minds of the members - we seem to not know that we do not know, nor do we seem to care too much about it anyway. Meanwhile, our culture grows colder, and harder, more callous and less human.
My conclusion is that we must come into communion with Christ, and have our own hearts changed - renewed - consecrated and committed in ways worthy of disciples and followers in His holy name. We must become people of prayer.
St. John Vianney said that prayer is nothing else than this: union with God. Without this blessed union - the union of prayer - our efforts remain on the surface. Without the rich soil of prayer, the fertile seeds we try to sow remain barren, and our fruitfullness is wanting. Without the communion of prayer, catechesis remains on the surface, the grace of the sacraments remains only partially received and held, the Catholic moral life appears to be only hard rules and not life. To live Christ we need to become a people of prayer. We need to grow in prayer; we need to find that personal blessed communion with Christ in prayer.
We need to have teachers or enablers of prayer in parishes to help the members grow in prayer, in reverence, in worship. We need holy priests and bishops to shepherd us, and we need to become disciples - perhaps foundationally, we need to grow in prayer.
Thomas
I only recently found this forum, and I am very happy to discover the “spirit” here - thank you,all.
My concern, and my apostolate, is renewal in the Church. The Pope has been pointing us toward renewal, and urging us toward renewal, in almost countless ways throughout his pontificate. I am saddened to continue to find so much verbal assent to his call, but so little “full, conscious and active” participation along the actual road to renewal.
Perhaps the greatest obstacles to renewal are the lukewarm hearts, and the poorly formed minds of the members - we seem to not know that we do not know, nor do we seem to care too much about it anyway. Meanwhile, our culture grows colder, and harder, more callous and less human.
My conclusion is that we must come into communion with Christ, and have our own hearts changed - renewed - consecrated and committed in ways worthy of disciples and followers in His holy name. We must become people of prayer.
St. John Vianney said that prayer is nothing else than this: union with God. Without this blessed union - the union of prayer - our efforts remain on the surface. Without the rich soil of prayer, the fertile seeds we try to sow remain barren, and our fruitfullness is wanting. Without the communion of prayer, catechesis remains on the surface, the grace of the sacraments remains only partially received and held, the Catholic moral life appears to be only hard rules and not life. To live Christ we need to become a people of prayer. We need to grow in prayer; we need to find that personal blessed communion with Christ in prayer.
We need to have teachers or enablers of prayer in parishes to help the members grow in prayer, in reverence, in worship. We need holy priests and bishops to shepherd us, and we need to become disciples - perhaps foundationally, we need to grow in prayer.
Thomas
