1. Relationships

2. Lines of Action - Relationships
To revitalize our relationships, let us go beyond
what already exists to:
• Give a new impetus to our spiritual life so that in our
Communities we experience God and communion among our
Sisters for the Mission
• Develop greater attentiveness to the Spirit at work in the lives
of peoples and in events in the world. In the light of this,
discern individually and communally the values and counter-
values to today’s culture.
• Intensify our proximity of life and heart with those who are
poor
• Create joyful communities where diversity is accepted as an
enrichment.
• Encourage participation, co-responsibility and subsidiartiy on
all levels.

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Turning the Ordinary into the
Extraordinary
“Sacramental principle”
Sharing bread and wine
Body and Blood of Christ
Pouring of water
Cleansing from sin
Sharing a life
Taste of the Divine Intimacy

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Sacraments
Not things
Actions
“Training Wheels” for the eyes of faith
– heard and forgot
– saw and remembered
– did and understood
Eucharist in John’s Gospel
•foot washing

5. Lines of Action - Relationships
Give a new impetus to our spiritual life so that in our
Communities we experience God and communion
among our brothers and sisters for the Mission
Contemplation
Spiritual direction

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The Divine Intimacy/communion - Trinity
– Unity, equality
– Diversity

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Challenge to see every Eucharist as image
of The Eternal Banquet
– Unity, equality
– Diversity
Eucharistic Banquet as image, symbol,
pictogram of eternal communion

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Challenge to see every MEAL as
eucharistic
"this is what it must be like"
celebrating table fellowship as foretaste of
divine
•draw on the experience of social intimacy
until we meet again around the heavenly table
•keeping alive the experience and memory and
the hope
– Past, present, future

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Challenge to see every RELATIONSHIP as eucharistic
Celebrating human relationships, images of the
divine
"this is what it is supposed to be like…."
Recreating the elements of divine intimacy
Drawing on table vision to recreate even now
– see every experience of intimacy as a mini
eucharist
– cultivating and treasuring moments of intimacy
and community
yet not confusing them with the goal
– keeping alive the experience and memory
perfume, sound of voice, touch

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Eucharist as prayer of action
Reliving our our moments of peak awareness
that we are one
Contemplation in action
In the action you understand God from
within the action

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DO this in Memory of me - Eucharist
Danger of missing the point, limiting our
understanding
Prisoner of the tabernacle
Individualism
Exclusivism
Don’t just celebrate what I have done
DO what I have done- POUR OUT YOUR
LIFE

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Divine Intimacy
Eternal banquet
Eucharistic banquet
Ordinary meals
Social relationships
Marital intimacy
All point to the Divine Communion

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It is always important to speak about
community concretely.
"The person who loves his dream of
community more than the real
community itself destroys community.”
- Dietrich Bonhoeffer

14. Table graphic

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Who sat at Jesus’ table?
– 'the immoral' (prostitutes and sinners)
– 'the marginalized' (lepers and sick people)
– 'heretics' (samaritans and pagans)
– 'collaborators' (publicans and soldiers)
– 'the weak' and 'the poor' (who have neither power nor
knowledge)
– those who have no place receive a place
– those who have a place in social life often don't have
a place in Jesus' company.

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Who sits at our table?
Physically
Emotionally
What is the shape of our “table”?
Square, oblong
Round
“Create joyful communities where diversity is accepted as
an enrichment”

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Who sits at our table?
Do we all look alike?
How universal is our community
Implications for vocations?
Even if we all look alike, do we have emotional room
for differences?
Introverts, extroverts
School sisters, hospital sisters, etc.
Gifted, less gifted
Favored, less favored

18. Lines of Action - Relationships
Develop greater attentiveness to the
Spirit at work in the lives of peoples
and in events in the world.
Transforming the Ordinary into the
Extraordinary