“Lectio Divina”

Fr Terry Donahue, Tuesday, February 28th, 7:15 to 9:00 p.m. in the Parish Hall,

CWL Breakfast January 28th

Audio of Presentation by Sr. Anna Chan, SC

If you want to get REAL in your relationship with the Lord, here are three basic tools to equip you.

1. Keep your eyes firmly fixed on Christ!

2. Be aware of your distractions, your temptations, your buttons, your excuses, your idols, your busyness.

3. You can think of your relationship with the Lord on a human scale.

    a. Spend time with Him - that means personal prayer every day.

    b. Get to know Him better - that means learning more about Him through scripture, the catechism, a good spiritual reading.

    c. Take meal with Him - that means the Eucharist as often and as reverently as possible.

    d. Get to know His family especially His Mother.

    e. Learn to say six important words, 'I love you' and 'I am sorry'.

    f. Share in His interests - that means get to love what and who He loves.

The reality of a relationship with the Lord requires your perseverance, your awareness, and your time. The experience is out of this world!  Remember this truth, the Lord is ever present in your life.  He died on that cross because He loves you so much and thirsts for you to include Him in everything you do.

Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger, "The New Evangelization

Human life cannot be realized by itself. Our life is an open question, an incomplete project, still to be brought to fruition and realized. Each man's fundamental question is: How will this be realized—becoming man? How does one learn the art of living? Which is the path toward happiness?

To evangelize means: to show this path—to teach the art of living. At the beginning of his public life Jesus says: I have come to evangelize the poor (Luke 4:18); this means: I have the response to your fundamental question; I will show you the path of life, the path toward happiness—rather: I am that path.

The deepest poverty is the inability of joy, the tediousness of a life considered absurd and contradictory. This poverty is widespread today, in very different forms in the materially rich as well as the poor countries. The inability of joy presupposes and produces the inability to love, produces jealousy, avarice—all defects that devastate the life of individuals and of the world.

This is why we are in need of a new evangelization—if the art of living remains an unknown, nothing else works. But this art is not the object of a science—this art can only be communicated by [one] who has life—he who is the Gospel personified.

Human life cannot be realized by itself. Our life is an open question, an incomplete project, still to be brought to fruition and realized. Each man's fundamental question is: How will this be realized—becoming man? How does one learn the art of living? Which is the path toward happiness?

To evangelize means: to show this path—to teach the art of living. At the beginning of his public life Jesus says: I have come to evangelize the poor (Luke 4:18); this means: I have the response to your fundamental question; I will show you the path of life, the path toward happiness—rather: I am that path.

The deepest poverty is the inability of joy, the tediousness of a life considered absurd and contradictory. This poverty is widespread today, in very different forms in the materially rich as well as the poor countries. The inability of joy presupposes and produces the inability to love, produces jealousy, avarice—all defects that devastate the life of individuals and of the world.

This is why we are in need of a new evangelization—if the art of living remains an unknown, nothing else works. But this art is not the object of a science—this art can only be communicated by [one] who has life—he who is the Gospel personified.

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