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Communal Apostolic Discernment Rome 2009

WEEK 2

Course Notes

Day 1

Morning Session #1

We are applying the questions posed by the small groups into one common question- How to be better collaborators in a common mission?

We need to grasp the common dynamism behind these words and these questions.

We want to think not of the others “those with power”, “those in competition with us” but to challenge ourselves as persons and as a community here.

Commitment not to be taken for granted. Commitment to be discerned on your part, and on our part, a common apostolic discernment cannot happen if the persons involved are not discerning persons.

Speak about our identity, our leadership, our experience of collaboration, how we need each one of us to change and be better collaborators, method of discernment that we will do through this thing. What we are discerning goes to the core of what we were talking about last week. Being collaborators in the same mission.

How do we be better collaborators? Ignatian imagination process – principle and foundation.

Collaborators is better than collaboration because we are the actors of collaboration. This implies each of us.

CAD does not close doors- it opens to other challenges and discernments.

Formulate the object of discernment – each member must know where the group wants to go

Each discernment involves acknowledging and preparing for change… “we always did it that way- why change?” is our temptation and comfort….. we must be open to change and be prepared to respond in change.

Who do we mean when we say collaborators- the Ignatian network – dos not mean that it is limited… we are talking about collaborators within this network who are not Christian or who are not religious – they are still in our family and in our network. When we talk about collaborators we are talking about some way or other Ignatian inspired collaborators.

Is there a place where all circles intersect in the central point – of Ignatius- rather than concentric circles where some are closer to the center or more specifically privileged.

Should we shift from “to be” to “we” to bring the subject back into the statement/question rather than leaving it in the infinitive?

There are two questions within the statement- how to be better collaborators and how to be in common mission? If common mission is not possible then it is not possible for a common discernment?

How can you be collaborators if not in the same common goal?

Fr Kolvenbach makes the distinction between three types of working together –

A partner participates in vision, mission, and ministry

Collaborators may not share in the vision- share in mission and ministry not necessarily the vision

Employee- may not share in vision and mission but in ministry alone.

How Fr K makes distinction is helpful within Jesuit context but we should not make the distinction here because not all people will understand the distinctions. It can help us to clarify what we are doing – but we might keep the formulation the same since others may not see the fine points of the distinction.

Community life is already a mission today- not just in going out into the world that we are in mission… trying to work in common together with its difficulties and things is already a part of the mission.

Jesus- invitation to collaboration with the 72- be with me, be sent with me to a common mission, learned by their experience, they used different kinds of evaluation to become aware of what was going on.

REVISED QUESTION

HOW CAN WE BE BETTER COLLABORATORS IN A COMMON MISSION?

Afternoon Session - #2

Re-lecture – rereading of what happened this morning in our little groups?

Share some experience of how this experience we did today affected each of us.

What stayed with me?

Gratitude has evoked the desire for collaboration; collaboration has been there from the beginnings in our stories and it is not something we invented along the ways.

In collaborating we need to be sensitive to one another. Collaboration deepens our feelings towards others.

Deep sharing and courage in difficulties and tears.

Joy and humility at seeing his history of collaboration – that something great is working in us.

Collaboration leads not only to a success and result but also to learning from ourselves and becoming more human

Solidarity, joy, and consolation in collaboration

A time for thanksgiving when you see how grace of God is in us and in those we are speaking to.

Working on a project and being united in mission with others are two different things.

We face risk and unknown when we move into this uncertain territory in ministry… we have all survived and learned.

Jesuits- we have trouble collaborating with other SJs so how can we collaborate with other people who are not Jesuits.

There was some difficulty getting into prayer with that short half hour- and it lingered into the first 10 minutes or so of the group meeting- then the sharing helps to experience grace.

How God enters us at a very early age and there are precious jewels from these childhood memories.

See how vocation as a Jesuit comes from collaboration prior to becoming a SJ.

Uniqueness of each story that we have heard. Uniqueness of each graced history.

We have built a trust in this last week and we are thus able to share more deeply when we come together as a group.

God is there today because he has always been there- right now is your time- the kairos time – with God.

Personal stories help to build the corporate “we”

Cultural differences play a part – but we can see that something is moving within others and appreciate it.

God is not only present in individual persons but he is working in our collaboration and in our reality.

What we have just expressed now could be considered a common consolation.

We learn from the switch in groups because we learn from our lives – last week we had one group to learn in and this week we learn to apply it in a totally different context.

Letting go, go on, go God.

We are incarnated here and take it seriously- then we let go and take it somewhere else.

How is it that the experience of the Spiritual Exercises – how did that help me to grow in my life story?

Life changing experience of being loved

God is always there and will be there – Ex. Continue long after you finish actually making the Exercises.

Help in letting go of fear and individualism.

Session #3 Name of Grace – Chantal

The corporate name of those who Jesus personally calls- Apostles

Jesus during the discernment of his mission is named a “just man” – Jesus receives a name given by God, brewing from life… some people in the Church are given names because of the way they give their lives in a certain way.

Ignatius- speaks of himself as the Pilgrim- this is one way that we see someone living their life in a people of God and taking on a name.

Living their lives in a specific way- deepness of identity vocation and mission

Step by step my awareness of my name of grace is growing.

Jesus knows Peter and Jesus knows Peter in a very deep relationship-

Who am I? - when Peter answers as to the identity of Jesus, he is given the reciprocal response of Jesus giving him a name and an identity as well as a mission in that identity.

When God gives us an identity he gives us the grace to live it as well.

It is important to know our name of grace because it will not be clear in one moment and we will begin to understand it through the events of our life and our knowledge of our name of grace grows with life. It is good to spend some time reflecting on our name of grace and to receive it as a gift of God.

SEE handout on NAME OF GRACE flowchart.

The name of grace flows and grows. You experienced things in your childhood that you did not know were a place for grace but when we read over these memories then we have some time to see how God has been in our lives.

We cannot stop on one question, if we put too much emphasis on the how we will always be in action, too much on the who then we are self centered, to much on the what then we will be too much in our dreams and what we SHOULD be and not what and who we are. Step by step this name of grace , already written in yourself as a child, slowly is growing and growing.

When someone makes a decision to do something different in the HOW such as service, then it affects the WHO not in changing in but in making it more specific.

Something happens and then you must have a quick decision – then you make a decision and act. Sometimes it is the core that is the forming of the identity in the situation.. but we must then reflect on how this affects the WHO we are forming.

It is not something static.. it is not something that is given forever and forever… it is growing and changing but it is always something that is given within the same flow- life experiences, ages, situations bring me something else and something new but in the same line.

Our name is not just for us but rather a gift that will be for the community as a whole.

REFLECTION ON “NAME OF GRACE”

It is not only me and in my unique way I will find my name of grace – but often other people can help us in that discovery and in the confirmation of something as being the name of grace.

Is it really “your name that comes to you in your experience of grace that comes to you.”

Sense of urgency to determine name of grace – as I go by details of own life there are different faith names.

My VOCATION within the GROUPS VOCATION – I experience being called in a particular grace and called by name.

Go over life story and try to put into words a sense of how I receive a special grace and practice that grace and how it identifies you even within your life in a religious community.

We try to express it is a deep vocation wherever you are stationed or whatever work it is that you are doing. “he called me by my name” –Herbert Alfonso

Day 2

Session 4 - Plenary Morning

Input –

It is important to start with where we have been and how we have been graced. If someone is not able to touch their graced history then it is impossible to move as a group. Who is God for me? Says a lot about our name of grace.

We start also as a grace and First P and F – and then we move to the First Week.

Graces from the prayer –

Learning to not presume where others are at.

Lack of trust

Envy and jealousy sometimes amongst collaborators or amongst SJs

Fear of differences- fear of pain and superiority

“I am better”

Taking the other as a possession and not as a gift.

Hurt from the past

Creating my own kingdom with my own God

Plenary Graces

There is a joy in sharing perspectives in the group

Gratitude for the feeling of sadness in regards to our failure to collaborate, rather than anger over that failure

Desire to seek the will of God…

Envy, jealousy, and distrusting spirit are hindrances to our ability to collaborate in our own communities and with others.

Where does fear and anger play a role in being obstacles to our ability to work with each other peacefully and joyfully?

Sense of humility – our own weaknesses in collaboration. Sometimes our gifts and talents can be an obstacle as well – magis can lead us to want to do things our own way.

The shadow is not new – but the sharing of them is very helpful.

Praying for the Lord to free us and open us to collaboration.

Many times we know that collaboration does not work but we do not know why – sharing is enlightening. See how it is shared by everyone in the group but with different accents.

Personal and communal prayers helps to point the difficulties in the sharing.

Feeling of being at peace but being challenged.

There is no common discernment without personal discernment

We are not trying to overcome these hurdles and obstacles but to embrace them – in a brighter light.

If there is corporate sin then there is also individual sin. How we each collaborate in that sin and name that sin is enlightening. We often need an external person to help us realize that we are on this downward spiral towards death and we need somebody to tell us that this is what is happening.

It is helpful for us as collaborators to enter into the light- we are often too close to our own sin and own reality to notice this though.

Fear is very great in collaboration – but reassured that we are all in the same boat. Even if the fear is great then there is also still a desire to get going and to keep going in that direction.

Feel the need for personal conversion and also communal conversion.

List of the obstacles of absent people who are really present but had disconnected from what was going on… am I right about this or am I making this up out of my own person? We moved away from the darkness without solving it – I cannot understand these obstacles and I do not have to understand them, they are what I know and that is the attraction to them. It seems that the challenge is “where is this taking me?” and it would seem easier to understand the obstacles in others and not in me. This is challenging and frightening. Where is this going to take me?

As Ignatian people working with others – we have resources to help us reach down and help other people – but this is a power that we can sometimes misuse or abuse because it goes so deep to the affective levels of who we are. What kind of shadow does Ignatian Spirituality produce?

Collaboration has its difficulties everywhere – regardless of where we are located.

Perhaps some have some healing to do – unreal expectations, if individuals are healed then the community is healed in some ways. We can be more intoned to where the spirit is leading us.

Shared sense of humanity in our suffering and a shared sense of being lighter.

Ability to trust others and readiness to let go.

Move away from exclusiveness to include the other and check our hardness of heart.

Challenges to discernment

- object we are seeking, procedures being used, and from relationships – a balance of these is good and leads to good results, if one of these is not in balance then we have problems.

- If this is not the right balance, then a lot of time and energy is lost.

- It is vital to have an experienced process guide from the outside.

Object of common discernment

The group is moving and is seeking decision making. The objective being sought is a central reference point.

Who are we, what are we doing>

Important for common and more specific objectives.

Where am I going and for what?

Never take for granted that everyone understands the same words in the same way.

What are we seeking – what is the final objective of this common discernment . does everyone understand the meaning of what is being proposed?

Method

Getting there first is not what is important… getting there together is what is important.

What is the role of process guides?

Seeing that all understand and seek the same objective

We are given a lot of time to prepare but still we need more!

Procedure varies according to the group

Interpersonal relationship

Perfect equilibrium between three forces is where intersection occurs

Quality and the right persons who are seeking the will of God together.

Procedure should facilitate sharing, trust, and deepening.

Spirit, prayer, will of God being sought together.

What is the emotion from which something is said – separate emotion from what the person says without dismissing it because it was said out of a particular emotion.

What kind of climate or atmosphere is reflected by the quality and manner of personal relationships?

Networks of communications with participants – structures, construction, changing, what image is perceived.

Guide facilitates instances to address bad relationships

Missing Plenary 5

Day 3

Plenary Session (Morning) 6

What happened for you during personal time and the sharing in groups?

Repetition to let grow what the spirit gave to one of us

We are all at the hand of the Trinity, doing the work of the Trinity

Final offering of the prayer session – reminded of Pope Benedict’s words about Suscipe – one is almost afraid to begin the prayer. The more one lives the more one realizes the enormity of the task before one. Stronger is the impulse to surrender and to be with the suffering Christ and to collaborate with Christ suffering – image of La Storta. Placed with the suffering Son. But also the message “I will be good to you in Rome.”

Development offices – we must beg and become humble, but in doing so we make the other person become generous in time and in money. Being humble and being generous are important values for the kingdom of God.

It is very easy to say joyously yes in this setting with those images and prayer times – but how are we being called? I do not have a clear answer… well you have to go slow. Wait and go slow for the results.

More conscious of the struggle that people are undergoing in order to build up the people of God.

There is space in the image of the Trinity for another person – that space is for us. WITH and FOR – be WITH me…. Go out to labor FOR the people. One is to be a disciple and simultaneously to be an Apostle.

We hear others and it is like they are speaking thoughts that are ours but that we did not even know how to articulate.

Great intuition – very energized in the sense that the incarnation, this energy, this power, to want to link up with other networks of Jesuits working with indigenous people. Find the energy – in praying the Exercises God has linked us up with the justice dimensions. God will move us in the direction for justice, for human rights, for creation.

Make friends with the Trinity – which can feel so very far away.

Each one of us has been given by God a kind of desire – we are drawn to something

Sometimes the presence of listening in the small groups can be more of a gift than the time in personal prayer listening. Respectful of each person’s consciousness and presence. That is a real gift.

Handout: The commitment that each participant and each group undertakes in the process of CAD

Plenary Session Afternoon 7

The Hidden Life of our Active Life with Jesus

o Confirming – opens up the hidden dimension of our own lives – the struggles and what we live alone and that God is there in that.

o You are my beloved – Come!

o Moments of struggle and of consolation

o Hidden life is preparation for public ministry – he does not stop having a hidden life when he takes on his public ministry (ie with Mary, Martha, and Lazarus)

o Christ lives in me – hidden life is Jesus hidden in me.

o The hidden life is something that continues and Nazareth is a place where I still live.

o Sometimes we find ourselves in places where people do not understand what we do- that was Jesus’ whole life.

o Pondering of Mary and inner struggles – our hidden lives are very much connected with our struggles with what we are going through – there are some things that we share with our superiors or with our friends but there are some struggles that we can only share with God. We struggle to be faithful to Jesus and to all people.

o There is a faith that has been given to me by my parents and grandparents and a part in who I am and who I am becoming.

o Shadow life - we do not tend to show this too much. Sometimes it bursts out. Sometimes we are amazed in this struggle – it is good that we have friends.

o Purification so that I can be more fully hidden within Jesus.

o To come to know my name of grace – is part of coming to know the grace to be hidden in Him.

o Jesus sometimes hides himself as well for us –we do not know how he is working – this is scary and consoling.

o Vocation – how God calls each one of us in a special way, in all our experiences in all our life we do not know it but the vocation is there.

o We are all called to leave Nazareth but Nazareth does not leave us- leaving our securities and what has nurtured us in our lives. It is also what has made us who we are and that will never leave us.

Next stage of method

Power Cycle

o Evaluation – to look at the grace received in the action

o Move from action to evaluation to recommendations and to decisions. It is easy even for children to learn to say thank you and I’m sorry- evaluation is about the past.

o Recommendations- desire for direction. If God is also in our desires. God is the action. We make recommendations and then decision and then we put it into action. It is a power circle because it is a way to grow closer to the grace. Power of the Holy Spirit – it is a special power- a power to learn not a power to kill.

Three Levels of Dialog

o Becoming more and more precise

o We go from this big plan of love to a realization in a very hidden way- that something very small can be something very important.

o How to be better collaborators in mission? Who are we, we are collaborators in mission? What are we called to – to be better? How to answer to this call- it is at the point now where we have spoken a lot about our identity as collaborators and our desire to be better – we look now at our agenda.

o We need to know when, with whom, etc we are discerning. We have seen who, we have seen the call today, and slowly we are going to see how.

Life-Death-Resurrection Cycle

o Because everything is changing- to go deeper into our call and grace, we must always be adjusting what we are saying and doing.

o Sometimes you are evaluating your action on the level of how, on the level of what, and on the level of who. We have taken much time to do it now on the level of who. We today have done it on the level of what, and we must now in the next two days look at how we will do this.

o In our lives it is always like a spiral to go deeper and deeper- there is movement in that.

o In the who we are sharing about the foundation of the group, the story of the group, the foundation

o You then ascend to what- what is the desire of the group, the goal.

o What are the objectives of our group- move higher to how- you have to decide what program a number of persons together could undertake- the cost, the people, how much time, etc. it becomes very very concrete.

o When you see how – there is no doubt that it is good and you try it- then you might have some doubts- did we use good means? Be willing to change or adapt or do something a bit different.

o WHAT- you may have a doubt about what we are called to? And the power of your group is decreasing because there is no agreement about your mission together and what we are called to.

o The doubt may be so important that it changes who we are that there is no more belonging to the group and there is no more collaboration and people go away.

Day 4

Morning Plenary Session 8

o Comforting to know that others feel the same way that you do.

o Peeling away the layers to get to the truth – the layers that we are peeling away in our own experiences are all ways that we hinder collaboration – mainly in looking at our own agenda that hinders us really collaborating

o The subtlety of the temptation – it always looks good- but we need to ask “is God in this?” Does God want me to feed the hungry? Yes. But in this way? No. Is God in this now, in this way, for us.

o The cross is not a piece of wood, but a way of life.

o One temptation is to deny identity and name of grace in the face of criticism and accusation.

o Angel of light – leads us to a place where we rely on ourselves. All the good intentions, all the learned experiences, still seem to produce a mess, tension, disagreement.

o Maybe part of my pride is that I think I have the “way” with my Ignatian tools.

o Great danger in measuring the value of ministry based on numbers - push our collaborators beyond capacity in order or achieve our agenda.

o Temptation is to be angel of light to finish the war and just move forward – realize that there is a need for patience and to let go of my own desires and glory.

Be more aware of the movements in the group that point to the good or the bad spirit – some movements which may come up are not the result of either spirit, they come from ourselves.

• SE 32– in General Examination of Conscience – we are talking about thoughts which happen within me - some are strictly my own and they come from my own free will, then there are others that come from outside me from the bad spirit, and others which are the gifts of the Holy Spirit.

• and 313 – recognizing those that are good and those that are bad – to reject them. What is movement? What is consolation and desolation? Mocion – movement/motions. We are not just talking about the sentiments. Emotion is another thing. It is a spontaneous reaction of organism. Emotion comes and goes – a movement stays with us.

• When we talk about movements in the Exercises it is not just about intellect and will – in this sense the deep movement of the good spirit from within has the color of gratuity, of a gift.

• Divine movement – will stay there. More than just an emotion, what is important, is that when we define what is spiritual consolation and desolation, we decide the direction. It is the orientation. They might be consoled but that does not mean they are spiritually consoled. I may be in bad suffering but in spiritual consolation. Towards what does this lead me?

• Consolation is not to be satisfied. It has to do with direction and to where it is leading me. We have to discern – from where it started, how is it now, and where will it finish?

Group internal movements

To distinguish the origin of our interior movements.

To distinguish the diverse collective internal movements

1. From within us

a. The feeling that the group does not know what is coming.

b. Coming in with bad time or space

c. Lack of internal spirit is open ground for bad spirit to come.

d. Situations, collective realities, behaviors- bad spirit comes and he builds on what we can find.

e. He puts us in a state of spiritual desolation – attraction towards mundane, lack of trust, absence of God.

f. Angel of light- good intentions that finish badly.

g. 333 – the bad spirit may come and provoke something less good than what we are aiming at.

2. Evil spirit in the group

a. Collective subjectivism – unaware of the rest of the world, Church

b. Acting as though everything only depends on our efforts

c. Contagious climate of impotence

d. Defense of the status quo – for fear of insecurity. Squelch creativity.

e. Excessive personalism or even cultural individualism

3. Common situations, spirit, with activate the presence of the good spirit in the group

a. The SpEx disposes the group to God’s presence – when this comes, this opens the way to spiritual consolation, to the way that leads us towards God.

b. This consolation is lived in faith.

c. The internal movement of this consolation tends to give us peace. Gives us energy for collaboration.

d. These situations where we are helping and giving.

e. Where there is a climate of listening to each other and patience.

f. To have faith in the action of the spirit- true dialogue and acceptance. Having us as better instruments in His ends.

g. Interior freedom – you have to structure in order to improve. To have interior freedom which has certain formal aspects to help the Holy Spirit to work.

h. Certain openness for future discernments – searching community.

i. Sometimes there is deep consensus and a sign of harmony and peace in a common vision.

j. Those things which come from us- timetable, method, etc. signs from the bad spirit – anger and no one listening to each other. Good spirit – idealism of Jesus, we are encouraging each other … these attitudes make way for the good spirit.

Afternoon Plenary Session 9

We gather what has happened in our groups- and we may have found that it is not easy to put words on an experience.

14. EXPERIENCE AS AN IGNATIAN BODY IN TRUST, REPECT, AND LOVE, AND INNER FREEDOM: identify key elements for better collaboration in common mission and agree to put them in practice

13. LIFE GIVING TRUST Share the grace and process of our time together at Monte Cucco

12. INCARNATION: 1 hour of community prayer together. We are the body of Christ and coming together we can realize that truth. If we pray together we could come before God to ask for his help.

11. WE HAVE GROWN IN UNITY IN THE LORD WHO HAS CALLED US TO CONTINUE TO SHARE THIS MISSION: to further deepen our experience and skills in CAD.

10. WE HAVE EXPERIENCED BEING AN IGNATIAN FAMILY CALLED TO BE COLLABORATORS IN THE MISSION OF CHRIST: written document or proposal to spread our experience to other communities.

9. A FELT CONSCIOUS BOND WITH THE WHOLE IGNATIAN FAMILY AS A LIVING REALIZATION OF THE SPIRIT OF IGNATIUS THAT MOVES OR ORIENTS US TOWARDS GREATER COLLABORATION IN MISSION: to share this experience with others back home, and to write a new document on collaboration in mission from the perspective of the whole Ignatian family.

8. ACTIVE LISTENING WITH AN OPEN HEART: to commit to implementing the discernment process and effective collaboration in current and future ministries.

7. THE GRACE TO EXPERIENCE COLLABORATION BY LEARNING TO BUILD A COMMUNITY FOR MISSION BY SHARING IN TRUTH AROUND CHRIST: to find practical ways of sharing our experience.

6. ACCEPTANCE : no common step, personal steps in email and networking.

5. A LIVE IN EXPERIENCE OF THE IGNATIAN FAMILY AS COLLABORATORS: Use internet to strengthen bonds of Ignatian Family – experience, resources, contacts

4. BY WELCOMING OUR DIVERSITY WE DISCOVERED OUR COMMON NAME OF GRACE FROM WHICH SPRINGS TRUST, CONFIDENCE AND FELLOWSHIP: become a local or regional resource for CAD.

3. GRACED EXPERIENCE AS A DIVERSE IGNATIAN FAMILY: articulate our experience in some form and explore ways of sharing our resources.

2. A LISTENING HEART : to appreciate the charism of others to serve together in love.

1. THE LOVE OF CHRIST GIVES US THE DESIRE TO COLLABORATE BETTER FOR THE GREATER GLORY OF GOD: we have no idea how to take the next step.

All of the steps are means to live out the experience further.

Sharing our experience – that is one of the graces that we have many of us experienced here and desire to take home with us. The action is taking it home.

What we have lived here has been experiential- that has been the power of the whole process. This has been expressed as the grace of most groups.

Experience listening to each other with trust – and what was started should somehow be shared.

Community, ignatian family, collaborators – UNION OF HEARTS. Sharing what gives us life.

Day 5

Plenary Session- Morning #10

How we are going to take this home is unique to each one us. Each one of us comes from such different contexts so we must keep that in mind.

Grace: the experience of being together- an experience of community, of unity in the Spirit, as a diverse Ignatian family called to be collaborators in the mission of Christ.

Steps: to share the experience in current and future ministries; to further deepen the experience and to implement it. AND to build an Ignatian network through mediums like internet and sharing resources.

Desire to put it into practice – so we will spend Mon and Tues focusing on practical implementation. Write your questions and put them in a basket and the guiding team will formulate the last part of the process.

Good to clarify the steps and the grace – we are devoted to a mission – hopefully these next steps will help us to go out and do whatever it is that God has called us to do.

We seem to be confirmed by GC 35 – desire to share in common mission beyond those who were present at the GC and those are who in SJ.

Perhaps we are confirming GC 35- that this was a lived experience of it.

How does social analysis play into this? Is it a distraction? Is it too much to take on? Should we focus on small steps that are feasible?

Documents help to clarify what we are doing and how we are doing it – otherwise they are not helpful at all if they are just documents.

Globalization is taking place regarding how we feel and how we react to things – never in the last 50 years have those in the social fields at the Curia felt as much of a need to look at the spiritual foundations for what happens and what they are doing.

Plenary Session #11

Sharing of graces of small group – supporting and challenging of your propostions within the small group.

Fear about hesitations, about what we are doing and what we aim to do.

Building discernment and collaboration as a way of life- begin with experiential level and then goes to community. Active listening.

Warm, gentle, and assuring – reminder to put confidence in God and not in self. Also some practical suggestions.

Very concrete about where each person is.

Five continents in our group – engaged with the Trinity in looking down on the world. Whole course coming together in this exercises.

Amazement of people coming from such large, diverse countries. People want more and can get inspired.

A lot of support – like you really want to be a part of each other’s apostolic concerns.

Grateful that we all have something to say to each other.

We are not in this alone.

This is happening when we could really be vulnerable

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