Sunday, February 26, 2012

Week 11, Exercise 1: Jesus Teaches Me to Love (the continuation of the Sermon on the Mount)

This exercise should be experienced between February 26 and February 29.

Pray with Matthew 5: 21-48.

When it is time for the colloquy, let it begin with the disciples. If you have always connected with one of the disciples more than others, let your conversation begin with him or her. Ask the disciples what it was like hearing the Lord teach them. If there is a part of the sermon that troubles you, then be honest about that. Speak freely and from your heart.

Then turn to Jesus. Ask him for the freedom that he has in his heart. Once again, if there is a part of the sermon that troubles you, then be honest about that. Thank him for his words of wisdom and ask him for the grace to live by them--in freedom, for charity, for justice--for the Kingdom.

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