Adrian Lyons, S.J. from Imagine Believing
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.
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Tuesday, August 23, 2011
Spirituality: Martin Buber and Freedom
In a remarkable passage, Buber reflected on human
freedom. One who is free, he wrote, ‘believes in the real solidarity of the
real twofold entity I and Thou. He
believes in destiny, and believes that it stands in need of him.’ Such a
person, according to Buber, becomes free to promote relationships. In fact,
anyone at ease in I-thou relationships has the main prerequisite for creating
faith relationships by which people become free. Interpersonal encounter, one
may infer from Buber’s observations, is faith in action and community-building
in effect. By contrast, ‘the self-willed man does not believe and does not
meet. He does not know the solidarity of connexion, but only the feverish world
outside and his feverish desire to use it.’
Adrian Lyons, S.J. from Imagine Believing
Adrian Lyons, S.J. from Imagine Believing
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