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Spiritual Growth Through Shared Responsibility
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The talk focuses on the concept of spiritual unity through collective responsibility and mutual support within a community. It emphasizes the idea that all members, regardless of position, share the same vulnerabilities and responsibilities for each other's spiritual wellbeing. The speaker advocates for an environment where correction and support are provided mutually among equals, rather than being centralized, to foster a deeper communal bond and spiritual growth. This collective approach, inspired by teachings from religious traditions, underscores the principle that an individual's spiritual development is intertwined with the community's wellbeing.
- St. Benedict's Synoptic Life: Highlights the monastic communal life where members are not alone but are responsible for each other’s spiritual growth.
- St. Paul's Teachings (1 Corinthians 12): Discusses the metaphor of the Christian community as one body, emphasizing interdependence and shared responsibility for each other's joys and sufferings.
- Old Testament References: Discusses the evolution from the 'poor one' concept to the 'child of God,' reflecting the transformation in the approach to divine salvation.
- Convergio Logos: Mentioned in the context of individual and collective penitential spirit and spiritual dedication.
These works and teachings collectively underscore the central theme of community life as an essential pathway for individual and collective spiritual progress.
AI Suggested Title: "Spiritual Growth Through Shared Responsibility"
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that there might be, have been one or the other remark in what that is, which... but very many things are there meaning.
[01:21]
We are all human beings. We are all in the same condition. We are all subjects in the same weakness. And the superior is not included. And when we are here together and live together in order to help one another, the superior should receive that help too. It should not be in some kind of the wrong, then this isolation just superior to all kinds of hills in that way. He needs the hills just as everybody does. So we are while on one side representing Christ, while on one side he is a disciple, and therefore the spirit of conveys your own, which is for him, and now it's written to what is said.
[02:31]
The answer may not be always a problem-wise, but I would ask you, you do not allow the devil to mix up things and see the always in the wake for a day like that. And the question that we say, the famous question arises, who is who, or who does what? I mean the person, the thing, from the language of the English, which one finds, one tells, so much caught this kind of anonymity
[03:35]
to come and they speak about certain difficulties they have, and they do it in a constructive spirit. Now, in many instances, names were not given. And I am not so concerned that those who were in that situation are not mentioned. It is not necessary, because what is that all should learn by the mistakes of individuals. And that's again part of our common life. Therefore, this of course cannot be prevented that something is said, you know, maybe one or the other feels that anything taken over the course. I mean, it isn't these reactions, let's get over it and see that they are natural and that they cannot be avoided.
[04:45]
But because they are there, we shouldn't get stuck in it. Everywhere, in every condition, in every situation which we are, see the door, the open door, the open door of salvation and of hope. And of course, in all these things, the essential thing is always Now, how am I known in this way? Earth exposed to all kinds of things, of a personal nature and personal sensitivities, and it's not the decisive thing. The decisive thing is here, and God, you know, that there is the door of salvation. I enter into it in the spirit of the conversion home. in the spirit of independence and performance. Look, there's a new possibility to consider these two things.
[05:49]
I'm also thinking of another thing I indicated yesterday, and that is because they call, they form the V. form of one's life, you know, but in a kind of collective way, that is the thing that I'm thinking about too much, you know, that it could most nearer this collectivity of, as I say, of failing, of guilt, whatever. Could that not somehow, you know, come into a good spirit, use could be practiced so that in the life of the little goddess, this getting together and now speaking in the spirit of very love about the things which constitute difficulties in the spiritual life.
[07:03]
This way together think about it from hunger, searching in a way, eager to get in that way too. That seems to me really is a very important part. You say the month is, first of all, is a wand who dedicates himself to this Convergio Logos. His spirit is, in that way, the penitential spirit. But this penitential spirit now, non-existent, in fact, is only in mortification and in a kind of individual thing either the community or also the individual, nor take, in the line of works, certain works, what we call works.
[08:12]
Or isn't the, let's just say, the penitential spirit, the spirit of conveyance you move, maybe in a much more important, a much more fruitful way, activated in brotherly getting together and speaking about things, then the areas of real life are very important for their own spiritual progress and for their salvation and in which they need the health of the present. We are really committed to each other's salvation and standing somebody that must be practiced really in the, and again, you know, as a kind of community thing, maybe not served with the whole group of the community, especially the large group, because the experience shows that larger groups, in that way, would cause a certain impact.
[09:24]
So I said, yes, sir, there could be a forum. or what we would call a deanery, where these things, you know, could be fruitfully, inconstructively pursued. Because then it seems to me that the general penitential attitude, which of course essentially consists in this, who am I to judge? That's the way it is. Who am I? Therefore, inner receptivity, I am nothing without the Lord, and I need them. I am a poor one, Christ, and as our Lord Jesus Christ has put it so beautifully one thinks about, and in some way I think he has filled the Old Testament concept of God's poor one with this
[10:30]
declaration of the child. The poor in one way has been replaced by the child. So deeply in the whole intention of God, in the whole plan of divine salvation, the poor one of the Old Testament grows as they transfigure into the child. But the child of God, by which our Lord has proclaimed, cannot intangible to God if you don't become the child of God. So in that way, in that field, you know, the practice to manifest is a group, a mutual hero. take that off with your own consideration, pray a little about it, think about it, and see, try to see for yourself how one could really make the common line in the direction of which form of our life more of a blessing or the individual, that the correction is not always death
[11:59]
to the superior, because then he is always the one to appear. I feel that sometimes so, or so here, that in our life, I feel that in many cases of the correction, shouldn't be left to the superior. It should be in charge of the partner, in any way, shares the authority, superior in his own field, he should correct what he sees in John Wall. And in this way, he should not follow the line of human respect or politics, being afraid to rehearse the sensitivities of his brother or his brother. Oh, yeah.
[13:13]
that we have to realize that we are members of one another. And that means that what one member is, the principle gets together and talks of the meaning of the synoptic life in the idea of St. Benedict, the value of the synoptic life consists in this, that we are not alone, but that we are together with others for the purpose
[15:55]
So there is a mutual dependency on one another which demands a positive cooperation in the spiritual growth of one another. We cannot therefore live together and be indifferent than all of us all who lead the life in that family, realize that, we feel that, and it is a good part of our life and our thinking, of our sufferings and of our joys, are indeed stem from this, from this mutual responsibility. As St. Paul says, in the 12th chapter.
[17:09]
God has brought us together in the form of a body, so that we should be solicited for one another. One member suffers, all suffer with him. One member glory, all take part in his job. Therefore anything that concerns the brother have and the Therefore, one must take charge of the other one, charge of one another, in order to support, in order to hear, by taking him into one's prayer, by suffering, in repentance for the other one, and in jeopardy. And we must learn things to offer ourselves will be as offerings for one another.
[18:21]
We are hosts, and we are hosts, victims for one another and with one another. And therefore we should, with the same zeal with which we pursue our own sanctification, so also we should pursue the sanctification of all, and that makes the inner value before God of the leader of community life. But of course, what really deals that, what we realize that indeed is his thing, which is very deeply and great demands, makes great every individual. But on the other hand, while there is less in our readiness and the eagerness to heal to one another, not to be indifferent to one another, there must be a cause in order that this attitude may really be fruitful, there must be on the other hand, that is to be the most important of all, that every individual
[19:36]
must interiorly be ready, give his consent to be healed by strength, to be supported by them. And here might have caused the greatest difficulty. In order to have that, in order to establish that involved soul, one must realize that one needs God's brothers. That consummate cannot dispense with them because the Lord has chosen them to be my members. And therefore God must allow them interiorly to take charge of all. And that in humility that one cannot work one's salvation to be by oneself alone.
[20:50]
If these two things, you know, are deeply established again in the depths of our souls, then the very important step to my mind is me. The very important step to me is to become one, to become one, there, where it is most difficult. See, if we have, we all realize that the greatest difficulty, I would say surface difficulty, really, in the community life are the imperfections, the limitations of the brother, the way in which they hurt one another. the way in which they are.
[21:40]
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