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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Saturday, October 22, 2011
Spirituality: Loneliness by Anthony de Mello, S.J.
Loneliness is not cured by human company. Loneliness is cured by contact with reality.
It causes us to think, huh? We have to allow death to occur to our illusions. When we deal with the real, we begin to find the meaning in life's events.
Interesting one this as I wonder about the role of imagination -which some might consider "unreal " but I always find it useful as a cure .
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Reality, as in being in the Now?
ReplyDeleteIt causes us to think, huh? We have to allow death to occur to our illusions. When we deal with the real, we begin to find the meaning in life's events.
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