Feast Day Letter of Superior General

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19 October: Mass of St. Paul of the Cross

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From my readings …

“I see the challenge of re-sacralizing the world as our most urgent, affecting in every way those other more familiar world challenges of climate change, inequality, poverty and starvation, religious and ideological persecutions, ass migrations and war.” Stephanie Dorwick, Seeking the Sacred, Transforming Our Voew of Ourselves and One Another, p. 37.

“The modern world is desacrilized, that is why it is in crisis. The modern person must rediscover a deeper source of his (or her) own spiritual life.” C.G. Jung.

The world is getting louder ….

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“The Busier You Are, the More You Need Quiet Time”

Here are four practical ideas:

1) Punctuate meetings with five minutes of quiet time. If you’re able to close the office door, retreat to a park bench, or find another quiet hideaway, it’s possible to hit reset by engaging in a silent practice of meditation or reflection.

2) Take a silent afternoon in nature. You need not be a rugged outdoors type to ditch the phone and go for a simple two-or-three-hour jaunt in nature. In our own experience and those of many of our clients, immersion in nature can be the clearest option for improving creative thinking capacities. Henry David Thoreau went to the woods for a reason.

3) Go on a media fast. Turn off your email for several hours or even a full day, or try “fasting” from news and entertainment. While there may still be plenty of noise around—family, conversation, city sounds—you can enjoy real benefits by resting the parts of your mind associated with unending work obligations and tracking social media or current events.

4) Take the plunge and try a meditation retreat: Even a short retreat is arguably the most straightforward way to turn toward deeper listening and awaken intuition. The journalist Andrew Sullivan recently described his experience at a silent retreat as “the ultimate detox.” As he put it: “My breathing slowed. My brain settled…It was if my brain were moving away from the abstract and the distant toward the tangible and the near.”

The world is getting louder. But silence is still accessible—it just takes commitment and creativity to cultivate it.

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Go for a few days of Silent Retreat at The Hermitage, Mittagong

Funeral for Fr. Jim Elmore, C.P.

The funeral for Fr. Jim Elmore, C.P., will be celebrated on Monday 10 October at 10.30 a.m. at St. Brigid’s Church, Marrickville. The burial will take place after the Mass at the Passionist Section, Rookwood Cemetery (Sydney).

Grant, we pray, O Lord, that the soul of Jim, your servant and Priest, whom you honoured with sacred office while he lived in this world, may exult for ever in the glorious home of heaven. Through our Lord Jesus Christ, your Son, who lives and reigns with you in the unity of the Holy Spirit, God, for ever and ever Amen. (Roman Missal, p. 1470)