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    Fri, May 13 at 6:24 PM
     
     

    Emptiness and Fullness

    13 | May | 2018

    Judith Leckie

     

    Emptiness and fullness at first seem complete opposites. But in the spiritual life they are not. In the spiritual life we find the fulfillment of our deepest desires by becoming empty for God.

     

    We must empty the cups of our lives completely to be able to receive the fullness of life from God. Jesus lived this on the cross. The moment of complete emptiness and complete fullness become the same. When he had given all away to his Abba, his dear Father, he cried out, “It is fulfilled” (John 19:30). He who was lifted up on the cross was also lifted into the resurrection. He who had emptied and humbled himself was raised up and “given the name above all other names” (see Philippians 2:7-9).

    Let us keep listening to Jesus’ question: “Can you drink the cup that I am going to drink?” (Matthew 20:22).

     

     

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    Drinking the Cup

    12 | May | 2018

     

    After firmly holding the cups of our lives and lifting them up as signs of hope for others, we have to drink them.

    Drinking our cups means fully appropriating and interiorizing what each of us has acknowledged as our life, with all its unique sorrows and joys.

     

    How do we drink our cups? We drink them as we listen in silence to the truth of our lives, as we speak in trust with friends about ways we want to grow, and as we act in deeds of service. Drinking our cups is following freely and courageously God’s call and staying faithfully on the path that is ours. Thus our life cups become the cups of salvation. When we have emptied them to the bottom, God will fill them with “water” for eternal life.

     

    "Be strong and courageous; do not be frightened or dismayed, for the Lord your God is with you wherever you go." - Joshua 1:9

     

     

     

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    Mon, May 9 at 2:59 PM
     
     

    The Cup of Life

    9 | May | 2018

     

    When the mother of James and John asks Jesus to give her sons a special place in his Kingdom, Jesus responds,

    “Can you drink the cup that I am going to drink?” (Matthew 20:22). “Can we drink the cup?” is the most challenging and radical question we can ask ourselves. The cup is the cup of life, full of sorrows and joys.

    Can we hold our cups and claim them as our own? Can we lift our cups to offer blessings to others, and can we drink our cups to the bottom as cups that bring us salvation?

     

    Keeping this question alive in us is one of the most demanding spiritual exercises we can practice.

     

     

     

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    Holding the Cup

    10 | May | 2018

     

    We all must hold the cups of our lives.

    As we grow older and become more fully aware of the many sorrows of life – personal failures, family conflicts, disappointments in work and social life, and the many pains surrounding us on the national and international scene – everything within and around us conspires to make us ignore, avoid, suppress, or simply deny these sorrows. “Look at the sunny side of life and make the best of it,” we say to ourselves and hear others say to us. But when we want to drink the cups of our lives, we need first to hold them, to fully acknowledge what we are living, trusting that by not avoiding but befriending our sorrows we will discover the true joy we are looking for right in the midst of our sorrows.

     

    "Then he took a cup, and after giving thanks he gave it to them, and all of them drank from it." - Mark 14:23 (NRSV)

     

     

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    Sharing Freely Our Knowledge

    8 | May | 2018

     

    Often we think that we do not know enough to be able to teach others.

    We might even become hesitant to tell others what we know, out of fear that we won’t have anything left to say when we are asked for more.

     

    This mind-set makes us anxious, secretive, possessive, and self-conscious. But when we have the courage to share generously with others all that we know, whenever they ask for it, we soon discover that we know a lot more than we thought. It is only by giving generously from the well of our knowledge that we discover how deep that well is.

     

    "For God did not give us a spirit of cowardice, but rather a spirit of power and of love and of self-discipline." - 2 Timothy 1:7 (NRSV)

     

     

     

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