Incarnational Encounters
In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. He was with God in the beginning. Through him all things were made; without him nothing was made that has been made. In him was life, and that life was the light of all mankind. The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness has not overcome it. (John 1:1-5)
The four weeks of Advent provides a sacred time in which we are invited to be present and mindful to the promptings of the Spirit in our lives as we prepare to celebrate Christmas. Advent beckons us to cultivate and deepen the sense of remembering that we are in the holy presence of God…always.
“Incarnational Encounters” is the 2015 Advent Retreat theme, and we offer Saint John Baptist de La Salle’s Method of Interior Prayer as a guide for personal reflection based on the Sunday Gospel Reading. The Method of Interior Prayer is a spiritual gift to us from our founder, for it invites us to slow down and spend time aware of the presence of God and of the actions of the Holy Spirit as the “Divine Disturber” our lives.
You are invited to reflect upon the Sunday Gospel’s using De La Salle’s Method of Interior Prayer.
- First Movement: Remembering you are in God’s Presence
- Second Movement: Contemplate the mystery of God’s love at work in the world
- Third Movement: Resolve to be open to the Spirit working in and through you today.
(Directions adapted from DLS’s Method of Interior Prayer by Brother William Mann, FSC)
Each Sunday Advent Reflection will consist of:
- The Gospel Reading in the context of DLS Method of Interior Prayer
- Quotes from the Founder, Saints or Pope Francis
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