John Predmore, S.J., is a USA East Province Jesuit and was the pastor of Jordan's English language parish. He teaches art and directs BC High's adult spiritual formation programs. Formerly a retreat director in Gloucester, Massachusetts. Ignatian Spirituality is given through guided meditations, weekend-, 8-day, and 30-day Retreats based on The Spiritual Exercises of St. Ignatius of Loyola. Ignatian Spirituality serves the contemporary world as people strive to develop a friendship with God.
Monday, May 16, 2011
Const.: GC 34, Decree 4: “Our Mission and Culture”, par. 17
One way of serving God’s mystery of salvation is through
dialogue, a spiritual conversation of equal partners, that opens human beings
to the core of their identity. In such a dialogue, we come into contact with
the activity of God in the lives of other men and women, and deepen our sense
of this divine action…
Thank you for this quote. It fits with something a small CLC group I belong is trying to do: listening to one another with the heart. Because it seems to me that to get to this sort of dialogue that opens us to the core of our identify, we do need to listen to one another with our heart, waiting to feel the movement of the Spirit in our heart that the words of the other has provoked.
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A part to this statement that I like is the attitude of trying to see the "other" as an equal partner. When we see each other as valuable contributors who can enrich us, we learn something from them. It allows us to be open and to listen in a more thorough way.
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