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Search Jesus Caritas using DuckDuckGoJESUS CARITAS SITE MAPA guide to the whole Jesus Caritas website. Fr Gerry from Clonard Redemtorist Monastery in Belfast spent the day with the Little sisters of Jesus during their Regional gathering to share about Eucharist and reconciliation and his own experiences both through belonging to the Jesus Caritas Priest's Fraternity and also based on his life in Belfast.  This book narrates the story of a friendship. But more than that, it is the story of the life journeys of two extraordinary men — Fr Gerry Reynolds and Rev Ken Newell. Both men have vocations for peace and reconciliation. As a Catholic Priest and a Presbyterian Minister, the two have had long and exciting journeys of faith and discovery. The result of their friendship — the Clonard-Fitzroy Fellowship — was honoured in 1999, when Pax Christi awarded it the annual peace prize for work on peace, justice and reconciliation encouragement to all Christians who recognise the gospel's call for peace and reconciliation. Ronald A. Wells, the author, is Professor of History at Calvin College, Grand Rapids, Michigan, USA, where he has taught for thirty years. He is author or co-author of three previous books on religion, peace and conflict in Northern Ireland, including People Behind the Peace(Eerddmans, 1999) and U-American Religion(with David N.Livingstone) (Notre Dame University Press, 1998). |
Eucharist and ReconciliationPraying for all people without exception The contemplation of Christ present in his brothers and sisters is for me the very heart of the ministry of reconciliation. It is a sharing in the intercession of Jesus for all his brothers and sisters without exception."The Lord lives with us in the Eucharist. His presence invites us to be one with all mankind, with a loving care for those no-one loves. Such care is for us a form of contemplation" Gigi Re, the Italian priest who animated the Jesus Caritas Fraternity among student priests in Rome for many years, called this "active contemplation". Ian Latham, the English Little Brother of Jesus calls it "Praying as Contact with People". Pat Brady, one of the first members of the Fraternity in Ireland, called it "Being before the Lord with all your people in your heart". In a July 1909 letter to Louis Massignon Brother Charles speaks of this prayer: "May Jesus enlighten you, may he give you his Spirit, may he enable you to be and to do, at each moment, what's most pleasing to him; in a word let Him live in you. I ask Him this for you, for everyone. Let's ask together, for every human being, what we ask for ourselves " In the same year he recommends to all the members of the Jesus-Caritas Union to beg "The heavenly Father to pour out on all human beings, created by Him, His Holy Spirit, our 'daily bread' and the 'one thing necessary'; the brothers and sisters should put all their heart into this prayer, praying for all people without exception ". |
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