{"id":6592,"date":"2024-12-06T11:30:42","date_gmt":"2024-12-06T10:30:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cenacle-gen.org\/2024\/12\/06\/preparing-for-christmas-2\/"},"modified":"2024-12-06T11:34:37","modified_gmt":"2024-12-06T10:34:37","slug":"preparing-for-christmas-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cenacle-gen.org\/en\/2024\/12\/06\/preparing-for-christmas-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Preparing for Christmas"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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\u201c... God so loved the world...\u201d<\/h3>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t
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No words can express in depth the Mystery we are about to contemplate… Only silence will help us understand this event… <\/p>\n

In the Incarnation<\/strong> God HEARS the cry of his people and descends…<\/p>\n

\u201cI have witnessed the affliction of my people\u2026 I have HEARD their cry\u2026 Therefore I have come down to rescue them\u201d<\/h5>\n
Exodus 3:7-8<\/h6>\n

ENTER the Mystery of the Incarnation of God, in which God becomes a concrete man at a concrete moment in history.<\/p>\n

Listening to a world longing for salvation, a world in need of love and attention. Listening to people in their various needs… <\/p>\n

Listening to reality as God listens to it, with the ear of the heart: a fragmented world, people who suffer in silence, chaos, the diversity of pain, conflicts that engender suffering, exclusion, death… this reality often provokes in us an inner deafness.<\/p>\n

Bring these realities to your mind, to your heart. Let them speak to you. <\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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Incarnation occurs in this world of misery, noise and pain...<\/h6>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
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Contemplate the Trinity listening to the cry of the world, its suffering, its misery, its contrasts… where all kinds of aggressions against life are perpetrated, generating violence, pain and exclusion.<\/p>\n

The Trinity takes the side of LIFE, lowering itself to the point of annihilation (kenosis) in the person of Jesus, who assumes the human condition.<\/p>\n

\u201cLet us make the Redemption of the human race\u201d<\/h5>\n
Spiritual Exercises, 107<\/h6>\n

In the Incarnation, God draws close to humanity, embracing it where it is weakest and most threatened.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t

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Painting by Sister Eliana Vieira Candido rc, based on a ceramic by Sister Caritas M\u00fcller<\/h6>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t
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– As you listen to this Mystery, let your being resonate with the call to be an ” incarnated presence ” in the reality in which you find yourself. A reality that often lacks life, beauty, humanization and peace. <\/p>\n

– How can I become Flesh and Life in this reality?<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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Song for prayer:<\/h3>\n

Trindade Miseric\u00f3rdiosa<\/h4>\n

Trindade Miseric\u00f3rdiosa (Merciful Trinity) is a song by Sister Mary Luce Rufino Alves of the Congregation of the Daughters of Our Lady of Mercy (Brazil).<\/h6>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t
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2nd week of Advent *** Prayer listening to the cry of the world according to the Ignatian method. This prayer proposal has been prepared by Sr Nazar\u00e9 de Sousa Pacheco of the Brazilian Province. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":6517,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[77],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6592","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-spirituality"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cenacle-gen.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6592","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cenacle-gen.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cenacle-gen.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cenacle-gen.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cenacle-gen.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6592"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cenacle-gen.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6592\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6593,"href":"https:\/\/cenacle-gen.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6592\/revisions\/6593"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cenacle-gen.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6517"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cenacle-gen.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6592"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cenacle-gen.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6592"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cenacle-gen.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6592"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}