26.
The
community takes to heart the need
to
create a climate
which
favours experience of God,
sharing
among ourselves and with others.
Each day
our life together is strengthened
by
community prayer.
We share
the Word of God,
say the
Morning and Evening Prayer of the Church
unless
we have been dispensed
from
this by competent authority,
and
adopt forms of prayer which help us
to grow
in faith, hope and love.
The
Feast of the Sacred Heart is for us
a time
to renew and deepen our common spirituality.
On that
day, in a spirit of thanksgiving,
we renew
our vows in union with the whole Society.
We all need to create a climate which favors the experience of God. I suspect silence is a great factor in creating this climate; Father Thomas Keating says that silence is God's first language. We need a certain atmosphere that is peaceful and free from tension. I find that many today live with the TV or radio or their cell phones on all the time and do not know what a value silence can be for their interior life. Sharing among ourselves and others is certainly a help to deepen our experience of God, but this does not happen easily without a structured time for sharing.
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