The Three Kings’ journey of desire
A blessed and happy New Year! Today we celebrate the Feast of the Epiphany or the Feast of the Three Kings in olden days. We celebrate the manifestation of the Son, God made flesh, to the world.
A blessed and happy New Year! Today we celebrate the Feast of the Epiphany or the Feast of the Three Kings in olden days. We celebrate the manifestation of the Son, God made flesh, to the world.
IN MY SPIRITUAL conversations with people, I would sometimes hear views that he or she is losing faith in God. Often I pose this question: Are you losing your faith in God or in your images of God?
Ignatius of Loyola often advised the Jesuits who were doing spiritual ministry that if they want to influence another person, they must enter the door of the other and guide that person out the door. I wish to propose this as the framework for our reflection this Sunday.
In the 21ST annotation of the Spiritual Exercises (Spex) of Ignatius of Loyola, he defines the purpose of the Spex: “The conquest of self and the regulation of one’s life in such a way that no decision is made under the influence of an inordinate attachment.”
“The exercises have as their purpose the conquest of self and the regulation of one’s life in such a way that no decision is made under the influence of any inordinate attachment.”—From the 21st annotation of the Spiritual Exercises of Ignatius of Loyola
There was a running joke we had in one of the offices I worked with in Ateneo. After every event we planned and staged, we would have an evaluation the day after or soon after the event.
This Sunday, we again encounter the image of the Good Shepherd. While the Gospel does not make mention of the Good Shepherd, it refers to the shepherd and to what is a key characteristic of a shepherd as leader or missionary: compassion, the ability to feel with and for others.
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