Secular Spirituality

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Secular Spirituality

• Session 8
• Going forth to Love
• And
• Serve

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Spirituality

• Spirituality \Spiritual"ity\, n. pl. L.
  spiritualitas cf. F. spiritualit'e. 1. The
  quality or state of being spiritual
  incorporeality heavenly-mindedness or
  other-worldliness.
• (Eccl.) That which belongs to the church, or to a
  person as an ecclesiastic, or to religion, as
  distinct from temporalities.
• An ecclesiastical body the whole body of the
  clergy, as distinct from, or opposed to, the
  temporality.
• Seeing all around us with different eyes and
  uniting the opposites by kenotic love

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Spirituality

• In the ordinary
• In the world
• What are your sacred spaces and places?
• Where do you encounter the holy
• Little clerics, we are not

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• Models of familiar Spirituality stem from
• Monastic settings
• Clerical settings, liturgies
• Church settings
• Secular Spirituality/Sanctity requires us to look
  beyond the familiar

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• Christianity is forward looking, always seeking
  to Christify all of creation, the Cosmos, and
  through our active participation in Christian
  Life to make the love of God visible.
• We often prefer to be simply observers, to hold
  tight to the past, comfortable with what is know,
  afraid to risk becoming crucified love!

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Shame-less plug

• Gospel to Life Life to Gospel
• Listen to the Gospel, hear the words of the
  Eternal Word
• Contemplate Jesus Is there any suffering like
  mine the Mirror
• Put the Gospel into Action

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The ultimate goals of Christianity

• To unify the temporal and spiritual world, living
  today, in the NOW and being an expression of
  kenotic love. Crucified Love.
• Seeking holiness in the every day ordinary world,
  the places made sacred by the Incarnation Gods
  self-empting into fragile, messy humanity

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• By loving every facet of the world, to take it
  seriously, embrace it and transform it into the
  fullness of Christ.
• To actively participate with the Fathers
  co-re-creation of the world, by embracing the
  self-empting love of the Cross
• To actively bear God in us and bring him, like
  Mary to the world

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• Approach all life with
• Gratefulness and Joy
• Different seeing eyes
• Sense of family
• Intrinsic goodness
• Openness
• Self-empting and joyful suffering

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• As we go back to our homes and fraternities, we
  can be spiritual guides and offer ourselves for
  our sisters and brothers.
• "Let us begin, for up to now, we have done
  nothing.
• St. Francis of Assisi