Readings week of January 26th.

Readings from last week's Daily Contemplative Pauses

*All previous readings & reflections can be found here*

Monday, January 26th

Reading: “They did not lash out in anger or grab the nearest microphone or collapse in victimhood. Instead, they went into silence. They refused to speak to the media and sought the gifts of grace only revealed in silent contemplation. This they knew well, the process they relied on in personal conversations and with hundreds of nuns at their assemblies. Take everything into the silence, open to the Holy Spirit, listen well, and discern right action. Share your individual discernments and attain collective knowing. This discipline has never failed them.

“As one of the leaders noted years after, "The decision to maintain a silent stance during the immediate time after the release of the mandate and a discrete stance throughout the journey of responding to the mandate came from a deep place of contemplation.”

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“A few years prior, in another confrontive Vatican situation, one of them had responded to a challenge from a Cardinal who noted that they seemed unafraid. She voiced what later became their mantra: "We are faithful, therefore we are not afraid." Each time they encountered opposition, dealt with dismissal and mean spiritedness, were betrayed, became weary, it was their faith that supported them. And so it deepened and, in continuous contemplation, showed them the way forward.” – Margaret J. Wheatley, Who Do We Choose to Be?, p. 105-106

Chant: In love alone, I take my rest, I dwell, unafraid. In love alone, we take our rest, we dwell, unafraid – Kirsty Christian

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