Ash Wednesday Talk
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The talk centers on the theme of inner renewal and communal charity, particularly within a monastic setting during the Lenten season. It emphasizes the importance of charity as a symbol of multiplication and sharing, referencing the widow's vessels of oil as an allegory for spiritual renewal. The discussion encourages forming small communal groups to address personal and shared growth, highlighting St. Peter's foundational work in the early church and its relevance to contemporary monastic life, as illustrated in St. Matthew's Gospel, Chapter 18.
- St. Matthew, Chapter 18: Discussed as a guideline for practical application within monastic life, particularly in fostering community spirit and mutual understanding.
- Story of the Widow's Oil: Used to illustrate the concept of charity as something that can multiply and overflow within the community, symbolizing renewal.
- Early Christian Community of Rome: Referenced as an example of building community through mutual support and hospitality, as established by St. Peter.
AI Suggested Title: Overflowing Charity: Path to Renewal
It was a pity we didn't get a word, you know, today at mass, to break the word, you know, to kind of help to make it accessible to us or to do as the widow did, you know, close the doors and get the... two children, and then the little vessels of oil begin to flow. That's part of renewal. Fathers always considered the oil as a symbol of charity. And that certainly is true, that charity has that very special quality to multiply, you know, to flow over it.
[01:02]
Bonum est diffusivum sui, the good, you know, kind of is eager to share itself. And I think that is so much needed, you know, in the community in our hopes that the Lenten season will not pass without little attempts being made here and there in small groups, you know, for the brothers to meet whenever there might be a first of all an inner need or an inner spontaneous kind of urge you know to come together in order to share something or also to get together and to To straighten out some wrinkles and to forgive and to understand one another in a better and deeper way.
[02:10]
I think that is the very secret of the early church, too. It's so nice. St. Peter there in Santa Prudenziana, very first time, you know, where he enjoyed the hospitality of a Christian house and then started the community of Rome there on this principle that was put before us so beautifully in the gospel and then again here today in the holy rule which is just kind of application practical to the monastic life of that very chapter of St. Matthew, the 18th chapter.
[03:14]
So I hope, you know, that still something, you see, in that direction, you know, could become alive in the community during this Lenten season, so that wounds that may exist, you know, be healed, that the positive inner fraternal, mutual fraternal love could find an expression, deepening. I must say I have many signs of that, you know, that that is really going on in the community. And with the kind of decrease of numbers, may the inner exchange, you know, of that fraternal charity increase.
[04:19]
Then only monastic life really makes sense. So I would just like all of you to invite you, you know, to enter into such communication
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