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What do you want? A simple question or so it seems. And yet there are so many things we want, a comfortable life, good health, peace of mind, consoling prayer experiences. Do we really know what our deeper desires are? Our deepest desire? Jesus also asks this question of us, at different moments of our lives when we dream of material wealth and honour, when we experience our mortality in the face of incurable illness or death, when our prayer is filled with dryness and distractions. For as St Augustine says, our hearts are restless until they rest in God. But where is God to be found? Perhaps in the question itself: What do you want? The two disciples answer Jesus' question with one of their own. Where do you live? Perhaps they, like us are only vaguely aware of their deepest desire. According to their Jewish faith, it is the Messiah who will save them. Could this Jesus be the Messiah? Yet, their uncertainty does not smother their yearning. And with voices that must have been filled with hope and tinged with not a little apprehension, they ask, where do you live? Come and see? Jesus' response does not take the form of a lesson in theology or dogma. He simply extends an invitation. Come and experience for yourself the person I am. Jesus continues to invite us to experience Him for ourselves, in prayer, in people, in good times and bad. Do we have the courage to accept His invitation? Yes, Lord, I want to accept Your invitation. |
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That Christians may favour the evangelisation of the new generations through the constant search for the unity wanted by Christ.
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The question of full Christian unity and evangelisation led to the beginnings of the ecumenical movement. The Holy Father decries the negative consequences of division among Christians and calls them to search for full Christian Unity as inspired by the Lord's Prayer. As evangelisers we must offer Christ's faithful an image of people who are mature in faith and capable of finding a meeting point beyond all tensions. The destiny of evangelisation is bound up with the witness of unity given to the Church. The urgency of preaching and displaying unity to the world arises from the fact that Christians can impair the vitality of proclaiming the Gospel and even become a scandal to the world, particularly when the churches appear to proclaim "a kingdom against itself". It is clear that the proclamation of the Gospel by divided Christians becomes counter- itness. As Christians we ought to give collaborative common witness which is founded in the common baptism in Christ and faith in the Triune God. Pray for the courage to work positively with other Christians for the purpose of promoting evangelisation. | |
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