Jer 6: - stand at the cross road

- Half way – Ex 3 – Moses changing direction of our life – experience the burning bush. To meet God we need to shed something like Moses did.

- Acts 9 – Saul was not a bad man – zeal for the Lord.

What have I done for the Lord?

What am I doing now?

What I am going to do in future?

St. Ignatius

- Donkey and its master – the burning shrine

- A guru and a girl crossing the river.

- A courageous priest who learnt marathi in RSS school.

- A priest who preached Christ by doing tricks to get people around him.

- Priest who bless rosary from his bead.

- The frog who jumps out of the bucket to see the outside world – others did not.

- Looking the inside – sacraments

- A small girl named Maria – people sing Ave Maria – she thought they say to her.

- What can I do for you programme – For the people.

- Poor man said nothing – I went for mass – I received everything.

1 Cor 11 – Earliest Eucharistic writing.

· Manna – Ex 16:4 ff, Deut 8:2-3, Ps 78:23-25, 105:40, Wis 16:20, Ez 24.

· Learn the Bible chapter wise.

· Mt 26:26-30 – Meal and social dimension also.

- Sacrifice – Victim and priest.

· Take – you are ready to follow me.

- If you are ready to follow me, take up my cross.

· Eucharist is like a blood transfusion – bad blood of envy, jealousy, hatred etc.

· Jesus is both victim and priest

- Holocaust – burn everything

- Heb 9 – enters once and for all.

· Jn 6: 29, 35, - Hunger and Drawing nourishment.

· Jn 6:47, 56, 44 , 54 – Eternal life, live in him and he in you, Resurrection

· Eucharist

- Why am I celebrating

- What gift can I give

- What gift shall I receive

- What can I broke for Christ.

- Offer yourself in the offertory

· Story of a doctor and disciple going from house to house.

· Story of a parish priest in a village parish when the bishop visited him.

· A soldier who became a son to the dying man.

· Don’t look at what you gave up but what you found (Chirst)

· In marriage, a man finds a woman. A woman finds a man.

· Eph 5:24ff, 1 Cor 7:25, 2 Cor 4:7.

· Faith is needed to sustain

· Vocation as a personal gift from God.

· Good friendship

· Loneliness to be healed

· Don’t take too many risk with yourself in life. – take risk in mission and Jesus.

· Helping is not interfering

· TMM = Tension management mechanism

· Use also our spiritual means

· If you do fail, still you can rise by allowing yourself to be helped by others who are caring for us – Talk to someone

· Ask for gift of perseverance.

· Two frogs – one who give up and the other who jumped out from the bucket of milk.

· A woman in the closed doors – Do you have communion with others?

· A disciple who wants to practice poverty ending in having wife and children – the cause is A rat.

· A Jesuit, a Dominican and a diocesan priests – An ex-priest was a clown they said – a Diocesan said that a clown becomes a bishop.

· A boy who bought something for mother on her birth day.

· Two boys – stole mangoes – divide in the graveyard and two priests walking by – One boy said, ‘one for you and one for me’ – the priests run for life.

§ Unity in the presbytery – Jn 17:6, Acts 1:14, 4: - One mind and one heart

§ Communion in presbytery is a strength in the parish

§ Unity is founded on the Holy Three – TRINITY

§ A beggar and a king – grains of gold in his rice plate

§ Accepting myself – successes and failures, sin and grace.

§ Unless you recognize how you are – you are not going to change.

§ Accept our brothers – you cannot make demands.

§ Accept God’s acceptance of us – most difficult – Gen 32 – Jacob wrestled with God – God defeated him

§ Praying together

§ Forming a vision/meeting together

§ Story of fingers – Indonesian story – I am nearest to God.

§ Story of trees

§ Use of tongue – Jm 3:1ff.

§ Good luck, bad luck who knows – the farmer – the horse and the Son who became lame

§ A Dominican and a Jesuit in a parachute.

· Sin is a rejection of God’s call

· Gen 3:1ff – Adam and Eve

· 2 Sam 11 – David – illness is a devil’s workshop

· Ez 37: - Valley of dry bones

· Confessor is not a prophet, but a healer – he must be gentle but firm

· Story of a young girl – in hell girls are too far down, they cannot be seen – this is terrible – no story like this.

· A grandmother – shouted by the confessor – her grand children stopped going to confession

· Heaven and hell – difference is sharing – 3 feet spoons

· Red hair priest – Judas belong to society of Jesus.

· A small boy who ask bicycle from Mary – Took a statue and left a note there – Jesus, if you want your mother back, come here with a cycle

§ Time and word

§ Regidity and lacity

§ Obedience and Freedom

§ Poor and rich

§ Community and individual

§ Mission and Institution

§ Mobility and stability

- how to integrate these poles – your quality is shown

§ 1 Cor 12:27ff – historical background is importance

§ A Dominican in heaven and a Jesuit and Mary.

§ Rom 12:

§ Every artist has a masterpiece – God’s masterpiece is Mary – Lk 2:19,51, 8:19ff, 11:27ff – how Mary received the word. She is the greatest disciple.

§ Story of Lepcha’s prayer – how it began

§ Story of a man with a heavy cross – same cross.

§ Acts 1: - Mary cares for the Church/

§ Lk 1: - Annunciation – poor of Yahweh – ready to listen

§ Rev 12:

§ Morning Star announces the coming of the sun

§ Mary heralds the coming of Jesus

§ When you are disturbed, seek Mary

§ Star of the ocean = North star

§ Story of an Irish Lady with abnormal children and husband met an accident

§ Ministries

- Receive the book

- Believe what you have listened to.

- Teach what you believe

- Live in practice what you preach.

§ A young priest in the shop looking for peace – Jesus was there behind the counter

§ Buy the trees of virtues.

2002 By Thomas Paul

· Fight against world, wealth and people.

· We can do only with the help of God

· Priestly vocation is the highest dignity

· Grace of God is like an ocean (so big)

· Grace = Participation of Divine Nature into human nature

· 365 place, God said, “do not be afraid”

· Faith in the Holy Trinity makes chritistian faith different from other religions

· We need

o VISION

o MISSION

· People cannot reach God because their thought are not on God

· 1 Thes 4:3 – will of God – SANCTIFICATION

· Lk 17:36 – Where the corpse is, there the vultures will gather.

· It is better to live with God’s power

· 2 Pet 1:3-4 –

· How can infinite comes inside the finite beings – Eph 3:18-19

· If you want to be docile to the Spirit, you must accept the inperfections of others.

· Rom 12:2 – Do not be conformed to the world

· Working Holy Spirit in two ways

o SANCTIFICATION

o EMPOWERMENT

§ Is 55:8-9 – Differences God’s and human’s thoughts

§ Backbone of formation is word of God

§ Word of God is God himself – st. Theresa of the Child Jesus

§ Since you donot believe God’s Word, you will be dumb – Zachariah

§ Jn 14:23 – Those who love me will keep my commandment/ word

§ Word of God is

o LOVE

o LIFE

o LIGHT

§ There is a Soul, a mind and a body. Soul is deepest and body is in the outer part

§ Only Word of God can enter into marrow, soul and Spirit.

§ We are like pig iron – to be magnetised by God to attract others

· Mk 12:24 – You know neither the Scripture nor the power of God

· Jer 31:33 – I will be their God, and they shall be my people

· Our mind is like an Iceburge – 10% outside and 90% inside.

· Conscious mind – now or yesterday or recently

· Subconcious mind – 6 months, one or two years

· Unconscious mind – 10 yearsa dn above.

All these can be cured.

· Mt 5:21-22 – Anger

Anger is the first product of the first sin
Anger caused the first murder.
Anger blocks obedience
Jm 1:20 – Anger does not produce God’s righteousness

· Mt 15:13 – unwanted plants will be uprooted

· ‘I am alone’ is false – You are not alone.

· Healing from loneliness is needed.

· Eph 4:22-24 – old life to be put away – pride, prejudice etc.

· Heb 12:14

o Mk 1:15 – fulfilment of Time – Kingdom of God is at hand.

o God has no calender – what is fullness of time? – for us

o Heaven – perfect union of Soul with Holy Trinity and the saints and angels

o Purgatory – purification of the soul

o Two Judgements

PARTICULAR
UNIVERSAL

o Fullness of time – our time immersed in God’s time – becomes eternal/infinite.

o Mk 9:49 – Salt – how can it be salty again

o Lk 17:5 – Lord increase our faith

o Lk 17:21 – Kingdom of God is

within you (personal level)
within us (social level)
universal level
eschatological level

o Kingdom of God is love, joy, peace etc

o Righteousness of God – Ps 121

o Rom 1:16ff – three characters

Adam – curse – sin came
Noah – curse is removed
Abraham – blessing is restored

o Eph 1:4 –

o Gen 3:21 – Covering – consequence of sin

o Gen 6:5 –

o Gen 6:18 – covenant

§ Gen 7:1 – first righteousness – great hope for us

§ Gen 8:20-21 – never again I will curse – curse is cancelled

§ Gen 12:1-3 –

§ Rom 4:18 – Abraham hoped against hope

§ Faith empowered us/Abraham

§ Faith and reason come from God

§ Gen 12:1 –

leave your country
Cut off all attachments
God said, “I will give my Son”

§ The climax of Faith is union with God – Abraham reach climax of faith

§ Gen 22:15 – God is swearing to Abraham.

· By heart Jn 15:1-7

· 1 Cor 2:9ff – revelation through the Holy Spirit

· Jn 16:12-13, 14:26 – Holy Spirit will tell you everything

· Wis 6:14 – Pray for wisdom

· Two natures

§ Carnal

§ Spiritual

· Spiritual will be overcome like Jacob and Easau

· Jn 8:35-36 –

· Heb 5:1-2 –

· Save the souls from slavery – Moses’ mission

· Mark the doorpost with the blood – and in houses

· Rom 3:20-23 – Justified through Faith

· Jn 1:16 –

· One cannot come out of slavery without supernatural power

· Murstard seed is very strong – you will fall if you walk on it

· Walking through the sea – righteousness of God.

· Righteousness is not only saving but also destroying the enemy.

RECONCILIATION

o Repent and believe in the Good News –

o Believe in the Good News so that you can repent.

o Natural phenomena of sin – distance from God

o Repentance is the working of the Holy Spirit

o Rev 2:3-4 –

o We may be sinner, yet we are the children of God

o Eph 2:8 – Faith, grace and salvation (holiness) are gifts

o Faith can be increased through prayer – no prayers results no faith, no grace no salvation.

o Priest or religious is first of all a person of prayer.

o Through prayers, millions and millions of souls are saved

o Theresa of the Child Jesus saved the soul of a hardcore murderer by her prayers

o What are the things we failed to do?

o Greatest sin is the lost of the sense of sin

o Conscience is the core and the sanctuary of a man where God’s voice is echoing.

o Gen 3:3-6 –

o Currupted consciences

o Crisis – open your conscience to the Holy Spirit.

o Gives a person dignity

o Holy Spirit should examine our conscience and verifies that.

o 1 Tim 1:18-19 – blood of Christ purifies our conscience

o 1 Pet 3:21 –

§ Moral conscience – refer Cathechism of the Catholic Church (CCC).

§ Faith in what –

§ Faith in whom –

§ Jesus is not only for christians, not private property of Christians

§ 100% faith = this is the lamb of God who takes the sin of the world

§ Confess for the lack of faith

§ 2 Cor 13:5 –

Faith Grace Holiness

100% 100% 100%

Then there would be no sin.

§ More sin, less faith and more faith less sin.

§ Confess and pray for faith

§ Examining our faith is important

· Rom – Faith, hope and love.

· We have faith in the one we hope

· Unconditional love makes us love even the enemy

· Capacity of love of God makes us love our enemies

· Spirituality

· Thief and levite – all I have is mine

· Good samaritan – all I have is yours

· Hidden Spirituality – Innkeeper – treat at a cost

· We should become missionary and not functionary

· Rom 5:5 – love of God is pouring

· Rom 5:20 – Where there is sin, grace abounds

· Rom 6:1 – that does not mean that you sin more

Vows

o Vow is not a rule or discipline

o Way of life which we share with Christ

o Origin of vow – Jesus himself

o Poverty, Obedience and Chastity are your daily cross

o Rom 8:14-15 – Led by the Spirit are children of God

o New testament – prophet is every one

o Liberation from human nature through the power of the Spirit

o Gal 5:16 – inner conflict –war – spirit – Flesh

o Flesh is week, Spirit should empower it

o Rom 8:11 –

o Our Spirit has two natures –

Spiritual nature
sensory part

o Flesh will have no influence on you

o The five appetites externally through the senses

o Antony Mary Claret – sept 4 – he started to fast –

o Jesus tells only Fasting and Prayer you will be peaceful in your vows (POC)

o Only through the word of God, vocation is clear

o It has to be conceived in the mind – imagination

o Mt 10:36 – our Spiritual enemy is form one’s own household – from inside you

o I will come like a thief – when the flesh and the sensory are sleeping

o Purgatory - Fire is love of God.

o Wood has to be put in the fire

o Afterwards the wood splits fire – the same with our spirit.

EUCHARIST

§ The source and summit of Christian life

§ Retreat is once a year, Eucharist is everyday

§ Human formation is the basis of pastoral formation

§ Lk 24 – Emmaus – did not recognise Jesus

The two seminarians on the way out
He disappeared – where did he goes – in the piece of bread.

§ Spiritual eye open only through Eucharistic power

§ Meaningful celebration of the Eucharist is enough.

§ Jn 21:

§ One person can change the world with a lever. The host is like the stone put at the front of the lever.

§ Finally you have to serve the people of God in holiness

§ Without Eucharistic formation, formation is not complete

§ Celebrate it daily – then your life is fulfilled.

§ Thanksgiving Eucharist

§ It is a reenactment of hist and mystery

§ 7 parts – 7 mysteries.

Incarnation
Baptism
Public Proclamation
Passion and death
Resurrection
Ascension
Pentecost

§ Christian mystery – priesthood is a sacrament

§ Incarnation is the foundation of our faith

§ Lk 4:18-21 – The spirit of the Lord is upon me

§ Me = all the baptised.

§ Jesus baptised – Heaven open – whole bible, ony here that the trinity becomes visible to human eyes

§ Father = voice

§ Son = Jesus

§ Spirit = dove

§ Mystey of proclamation = God himself becomes visible and proclaimed the same word

HOMILY

· 1 Cor 2: 13 – things that are spiritual – but taught by the spirit

· Interpretation of Spiritual things

· Common symbols should not lead people away from the spiritual signs

· Your preaching may not be understood by the people yet it will penetrate their heart

· Passion and death of Jesus is important

· Gen 14:18-19 – Bread and wine – 4000 years – why to change

· Alter – right from the time of Abel – it is the most holy place.

· Offering is 1/10^th

· Alter Lk 11:51

· Prayer of the faithful – God answer prayers

o His son is there

o Faith of four people

o Though he has no faith, faith of the people too is important

· Power to save the non-faithful

· Seminary is a powerhouse

· 3 things to offer says St. Jerome

o SIN

o SICKNESS

o SUFFERING

· Seminary is like a place to polish stones

· Eucharist is the core of Christian life

§ No marriage, no seminarian.

§ If children broke, seminary broke

§ The Lord wants you to have an adventurous life

§ Epiclesis – Pentecost experience

§ Jesus was baptized to suffer, die and resurrect

§ Calvary is also a baptism

§ Doxology is lifting up the whole universe

§ Mystery of incarnation – peace on earth

§ Our Father has 7 parts

§ No fruit on the main stem only through branches

§ You are the Living bread

§ Mary did not run to the tomb

o Personal experience comes only through personal prayers

o Not to be forced

o Visible Lord is in the Eucharist

o Force from inside and from outside

o Calvary is hidden in God

o Personal prayers is like sharpening the axe to cut trees

o Go to your room – secret = very personal/intimate

o Distractions – don’t feel like praying – Why?

o Sin = going away from God

o Initiation is form God – through Holy Spirit

o Rom 8:26 – Spirit gives us help

o There are times that Jesus is sleeping in a boat seemed hidden from us

o Rom 8:15-16 – The Spirit in you cried “Abba Father”

o When you are in crisis – ask yourself ‘did you personally pray?”

o Through personal prayers and fasting – mortification is possible

o Annointing is actually a baptism You can renew it everyday

o Jesus never ask to pray to a God who is everywhere

o He said, “Go to your inner room”

o Pray to a God who is in you

o Baptism in the spirit is the stirring of the spirit that is in you

o Three ways of Existence of God

Natural existence
Through Grace in our soul
Through Anointing

o Jn 14:12 –

o We are called to do the same thing as Jesus did

Prayer is good
Prayer and fasting are better
Prayer and fasting and suffering are best

o Sacrament = visible sign of invisible grace

o Grace = participation of Divine nature into human nature.

2003

RETREAT - 01/09/03

By T.J. Thomas

Eat, Sleep, Pray and Reflect

Four days of Prayer

Teresa of Avila: Reading, oratory prayer, reflecting and contemplating.

Internal disposition

Openness – being and becoming – need to absorb a lot so that you can absolve.

- There is tremendous depression

- We need the inside.

- Learn to listen behind your ears.

- Change of attitude.

- There is no meaning in life unless we find it / give it. Look from a sectin angle in your life.

- A beautiful garden.

- Self-actualization – fully contented with oneself.

- Gift – receive it respectfully

- Treasure – keep it save

- Relationship – relate in love

- Mystery – meditate

- Growth – gracefully

Which place you belong?

1) Sun that gives light?

2) Frost that destroys life?

Sower – seed is some – How we prepare the ground.

Most extraordinary thing is to remain as ordinary.

Mk 8:27-35

Rm 7:18-25

Deut 26:5-12

Ezek 36:24-36

Mt 13:1-9

Eph 3:14-21

Gal 5:16-21

Eccl (kohelet) 1:1-18

Deut 1:29-33

Jn 3:16-21, 18:9-10.

02/09/03

Experience reflection – Exodus experience, Abba experience.

To be rid of: 1) Intellectual idiot, 2) Rational rascals and 3) Emotional taboos

Sensible experience,

Painful experience

Loco therapy – words can heal.

Feeling and Emotions.

Be aware of what is happening.

® From experience we find meaning, aim, purpose in life. Christ knows it from his experience.

® Certain attitude – We are one among the millions.

®Meaning in life only through struggles / tensions

® Loneliness – main problem.

Mass:- Deut 26:5-35, Lk 4: / Mt 13:1-9, 14:1-23, Rom 5:15-17, 7:15-28, Mk 8:27-35, Mt 16:23, Gen 12:1-10, Acts 7:5-23, Isa 43:1-7, 45-19-21, 46:8-10, Eph 1:1-10, 5:1-20, Col 3:1-12, 2 Sam 11 + 12, 1 Kings 3L6-14, 11:1-5, Deut 4:7-14, 32:40.

- Our own sinfulness,

- Sin – an alienation a) cardinal sin and b) venial sin

- From where does it start? – Gift – Freedom to be or not to be.

- Evil – whatever happen I want to have / enjoy

- Do to others as you would like others to do to you. – Golden rule.

- Dehumanizing – personal sin

- Consumerism – Love communities and use human beings.

- Interpersonal sin – using persons

- Social sin – social structure – casteism

- Behaviour sin – the behaviour you have

- Attitudinal sin – your attitude

- Ecological sin – cosmic sin

- Culture of silence – It hasn’t happen to me

- Hell – Everyone hates the other one / pull each other down

- Freedom to become

- Forgiveness – For oneself

- For others

- With God

- Always there is Redemption.

- We don’t repent because we are afraid

- Gen 3:1-7, Gen 4:1-14, 11:1-9, 19:1-11, 2 Sam 12:1-13, Exo 32:1-15, 1Kgs 11:1-15, 21:20-30, Deut 7:6-16, Eze 18:21-31, 2Kgs 21:3-16, Jg 19:10-13, 1 Cor 3:11-17, Acts 1:15-28, Hos 11:1-4, Amos 5:21-24, 8:4-12, Lev 25:, Deut 15, Lk 15:1-15, Mt 8:2-11, Lk 7:33-40, Mt 18:21-35, Deut 7:6-11, Rom 7:7-25, 8:1-8, Rom 6:12-14, Gal 5:16-21, Deut 4:29-31, Hos 14:2-10, Lk 7:36-50, 15:11-32.

Vocation- call [Readings – Gal 1:11-24, Lk 18:1830)

God calls, - Mission – kind of God entrusted to his Son.

Church – hierarchy – bishops, priests – individual charism.

Parish council – Parish organization – individual family

Catholics Church (Protestants) Orthodox

Priest oriented Preaching oriented mystery oriented

Devotion Community Practice

Eucharist Bible Ritual practices

Personal prayer Common prayer Contemplative

Trinity: - Father - Son - Holy Spirit

Teacher Preacher Healer

King Prophet Priest

Peter Paul John

Justification Mission Medical

Clerical Evangelisation Contemplation

Pastor Evangelist Acharyas Guru

Catholic Protestant Orthodox

Vocation needs grace.

Interrogation – Unique phenomena – need to have confirmation:

1) Real disposition 1 Sam

2) ……………. Gen 12:1-10

3) Call of Elisha

4) Call of Moses 3:1-17

5) Call of Paul 9:1-20

Lk 18:18-30, Mt 19:10-12, Lk 9:1-6, 1Sam 16:1-16, Isa 6:1-9, Jer 1:4-8, Amos 7:8-15, Hos 1:1-12, Lk 1:26-38, Mt 16:18-19, Jn 1:36-42, 6:25-17, Lk 5:7-12, Act 9:1-28, Gal 1:24, Lk 10:21-32, Jn 14:6-10 1Sam 15, Jn 12:4, Mt 26:48, Mk 1:16-28, 1Cor1:27-37, Mt 16:1-19, Eph 1:4-6, 2Pet 1:10, 1Cor 1:26-31.

03/09/03

Incarnated in Space and Time (Incarnation)

Longing – in time of disorder – Jesus taught “Our Father”.
It is a great mystery – Virginity = Transparent, self-openness to receive / self.
Righteous / just = one who believe in promises/ Prophets etc.
We need to be incarnated in the place we work.
Good will is needed for incarnation.
Christ has temptations but not succumbed to them, that is he is human.
Authenticity and credibility – makes a successful Priest.
Important task to be incarnated.
Loneliness has to be faced at all cost.
You are in the world but not of the world.

Isa 2:1-5, 7:10-14, 9:2-7, 35:1-6, Rom 1:1-7, 13:11-14, Col 1:15-20, Phil 2:6-11, Eph 1:3-6, Heb 10:4-10, 2Cor 11:23-30, Mt 1+2, Lk 2, Jn 1:1-19, Mt 3:10-15, 14-17, Isa 42:1-7, Mt 4:1-11, 14-17, 19:16-24, 25:1-13, Lk 4:3-13, 9:23-26, 23:34-39, Acts 9:1-19, Isa 42:1-7, Rom 8:35-39, 2Cor 6:4-10,

o Jesus as king, prophet and priest

o Sermon on the mount – radical love and forgiving

o Discipleship – I say to you

o Fulfilment of the law means practicing the law

o Pharisees = rubrics and rituals

o Magnanimity – even if you don’t deserve, I give it to you

o Fatherhood of God means brotherhood of humanity

o Mt 5:13, 7:29, 5:13-16, 5:17-20, 21-26,27-30, 28-42

o Mt 5:43-48, 6:1-4, 5-15, 16-18, 19-21, 24, 25-34,

o 7:1-11, 12, 13-14, 15-20, 21-23, 24-26

o Law limits but love limitless

o Law stubborn attitude, love liberative

o Law is legalistic, new law is magnaminous

o Mt 5:6-7, Lk 4:18-20, Deut 5:1-22, Rom 8:1-18, Ex 20:1-17

o Lk 10:29-37, 18:10-15, 15:11-32, 7:33-50, 19:11-27,

o Mt 13:24-58, 18:10-15, 23-25, 20:1-16, 21:33-46.

o Redemptive suffering, incarnational suffering

o All sacraments are healing

o Stages of life – 8 stages of healing

o Mt 7:24-30, 12:22-23, Mk 5:1-20, Mt 9:14-29, Lk 4:31-37

o Mt 8:1-10, 28-34, Lk 4:31-37, 7:1:1-10, Mt 9:1-8,

o Readings Deut 5:1-28, Gospel Lk 15:11-32.

§ Crisis – Galilean Crisis

§ Love and service identifies Christian followers

§ Eucharist is a transubstantiation

§ God’s love is revealed in it

§ Acts – sharing the bread – strarted in the individual’s home

§ From home to tomb to Cathedrals

§ It was a ritualistic meal – supper to celebration

§ Economy of Salvation

· Father – Creator

· Son – redeemer

· Spirit – sanctifier

§ Holy Sacrifice is a parting meal.

§ Center of Christian living – sum total of Jesus’ life.

§ Mt 14:19, Jn 6:11-23, Mt 15:36, 26:26-29, Mk 14:22-25

§ Lk 22:15-20, 1 Cor 11:23, Mk 14:12-16, Jn 19:14-36.

§ Acts 2:42, Jn 6:26-51, Lk 22:15, Mk 14:25,

§ Is 42:6, 49:8, Jer 31:31-34, 1 Cor 11:26, Heb 10:1, 8:5, 7:27,

§ Col 12:17, Jn 6:35-71, Mt 23, Lk 11:37-54

§ Mk 21: , 20:17-29, 12:1-11, 20:1-17, 21:28-32, 21:33-45

§ Lk 22:14-24, Mt 10:35-45, 1 Cor 10:16-21, 1 Cor 11:17-34,

§ Jn 13:, 14:15-31, 15:1-18, 16:25-30, 17:1ff

§ Jn 13-18 – contemplation Jesus’ prayers for unity.

§ Retrospection of Jesus before he dies

§ What is my aim/purpose

§ Encourage one another towards the goal

DEATH OF JESUS

o Reason given – political reasons. Actually religious and social reasons

o Christ is not a victim, he is a leader, a victor

o At Getsemane – he was still free to escape

o Jesus was hanging naked so that others are made naked

o Mt 26:1-3, Mk 14:12, Lk 22:1-2, Mt 26:6-13, Mk 14:3-9

o Mt 26:14-16, Mk 14:10-11, Lk 20:3-6, Mt 26:7-9, Mk 14:12-16

o Lk 22:7-13, Mt 26:20-25, Mk 14:17-25, Lk 22:21-23, Mk 26:30-35,

o Mk 14:26-31, Mt 26: 36-46, Mk 14:32-42, Lk 22:40-46

o Mt 26:47-50, Mk 14:48-52, Lk 22:40-46

o Mt 26:57, Lk 22:54-71, Mt 27:1-2, Mk 15:1, Lk 23:1, Jn 18:28

o Mt 27:3-10, Mt 27:11-14, Mk 15:2-5, Lk 23:2-5, Jn 18:29-58

o Lk 23:6-60, Mt 27:15-26, Mk 15:6-15, Lk 17:23-25

o Jn 18:39, Mt 27:27-31, Mk 16:16-20

o Mt 27:32, Mk 15:31, Lk 23:26-32, Jn 19:17,

o Mt 27:33-34, Mk 15:23-32, Lk 22:33-43, Jn 19:18-27

o Mt 27:35-46, Mk 15:33-41, Lk 23:44-59, Jn 19:28-30

o Mt 27:56-61, Mk 15:40-47, Lk 23:50-56, Jn 19:31-38

o Death for a cause

o Teaching God’s justice

o Jer 11:18-20, 31:31-34, Is 42:1-7, 49:1-6

o Is 50:4-9, 52:13-15, 53:1-12

o Ps 13, Heb 4:14-16, Acts 2:22-24, 3:15-17, 5:30-42, Phi 2:6-11,

o 1 Cor 15:3-11,

o Mass – Reading 1 Cor 11:23-26 and Gospel Lk 2: -

CROSS

· People come for the way of the Cross

· Why? – This is a mystery – people feel the absence of God

· It is not the absence of God but the absence of our thought God.

· Hid and seek game is played

· Devil is also child of God – Job 1:1ff

· Absence of God is a mystery, yet he works without our knowing

· God is clouded – we cannot see him

· Cross – Red Cross – Mystery – sign of saving

· Emptiness – precondition of fullness.

o My God, why have thou forsaken me ?Mt 27:46

o Mt 23:34 – Father forgive them – forgiveness comes from one who experiences God

o Lk 23:42 – You will be with me in paradise – on the cross still he shows sympathy to others

o Lk 23:46 – Father into your hands I commend my spirit – anger, denial, depression, acceptance, surrender

o Jn - Mother of all the disciples and christians

· Right brain – feeling and emotion

· Left brain – intellect and reasoning. He combines them both

o I thirst Jn 19:28 – For what? – for the poor, sinners, marginalized, not accomplished.

o It is finished – accomplished – mission is accomplished.

RESURRECTION

· Transformation of life

· It is a transhistorical event – his cannot comprehend

· Empty tomb is not a proof of resurrection

· Folded cloak – experiences

· Resurrection = Full presence of God

· 153 fishes

· 153 symbolizes the whole universe

· Faith = assurance of and conviction of things not seen

· Mt 12:39-40, Mk 9:9-10, Lk 14:12-14, 16:19-31, Act 2:22-24

· Acts 3:15-17, 5:30-32, 10:47-53, 10:

· Mt 28:1-16, Mk 16:1-10, Lk 24:1-25, Jn 20-21: 15, 1Cor 15:3-20

· Mass = Reading Acts 2:1-13, Jn 20:19-23.

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Tuesday, 8 November 2011

Retreats over the years