Weekly Readings Newsletter

Weekly Readings 10/3/2013

An excerpt from Laurence Freeman OSB, “Letter Eleven,” WEB OF SILENCE
(London: Darton, Longman, Todd, 1996), pp. 116-118.

From time to time, by grace and faith and the simplicity of the mantra, we can be led into deep peace and equanimity.

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Weekly Readings 3/3/2013

An excerpt from Laurence Freeman OSB, “Dearest Friends,” Newsletter of the World Community for Christian Meditation, Vol. 33, #1, April 2009, p. 4.

The mantra is the focus of this daily mystery lived in the ordinary. It is an act of unity, an expression of love beginning with a new kind of love for one’s self that may at first seem like tough love but which expands into the Trinitarian experience itself

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Weekly Readings 24/2/2013

An excerpt from Laurence Freeman OSB, “Reflections,”  Lent 2008,” pp. 2-3, www.wccm.org. 

Lent is a time when we refine and purify the spiritual senses and identify the habits or patterns that pollute them. The means of doing this are the exercises we undertake in this season.

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Weekly Readings 17/2/2013

An excerpt from Laurence Freeman OSB, “Meditation,” JESUS THE TEACHER WITHIN (New York: Continuum, 2000), pp. 212-213.

In the Sermon on the Mount Jesus identified material concerns as our main source of anxiety. How can we make ourselves more comfortable and reduce personal suffering?

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Weekly Readings 10/2/2013

From John Main OSB, “The Wholeness of God,” MOMENT OF CHRIST (New York: Continuum, 1998), pp. 83-85.

We have to learn, and it is absolutely necessary that we do learn it, that only one thing is necessary, because only one thing is.

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Weekly Readings 3/2/2013

Laurence Freeman OSB. An excerpt from “Dearest Friends,” CHRISTIAN MEDITATION: Newsletter of the World Community for Christian Meditation, Vol. 33, No. 4, Winter 2009-2010, p. 6.

There seem to me five essential aspects of the spiritual life, which for convenience I would describe briefly as these:

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Weekly Readings 27/1/2013

An excerpt from John Main OSB, “Healthiness of Spirit” in FULLY ALIVE, MEDITATIO Talk Series 2011-D, Oct-Dec (London: WCCM, 2011), pp. 9-10.

A big problem that all of us have to face is deciding what is really important in our lives and what is trivial, to learn to differentiate between what is passing away and what is enduring.

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Weekly Readings 20/1/2013

From Laurence Freeman, OSB: Dearest Friends, January 1997 WCCM International Newsletter.

To allow [the] pattern of daily meditation to take hold amid all the other patterns of our lives, not just imaginatively but actually, is a challenge to the best of us; to the best in us.  It is a mundane introduction to the cosmic law of sacrifice.

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Weekly Readings 13/1/2013

An excerpt from John Main OSB, “Death and Resurrection,” MOMENT OF CHRIST (New York: Continuum, 1998), pp. 68-70.

[T]he whole Christian tradition tells us . . .that if we would become wise we must learn the lesson that we have here “no abiding city”. . .[B]ut the principal fantasy of much worldliness operates out of completely the opposite point of view. . . 

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Weekly Readings 6/1/2013

An excerpt from John Main OSB, “The Oceans of God” in MONASTERY WITHOUT WALLS (Norwich: Canterbury, 2006), pp. 222-223.

Our life is a unity because what is real in it is centered in the mystery of God. But to know its unity we have to see beyond ourselves with a perspective greater than when self-interest dominates.

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