Sunday July 21: Compassion: A Bridge Between Self and Other

To Practice

• Pray these passages again in the manner of Lectio Divina, speaking them out loud to engage your senses and affirm them in your being. What do you hear for your journey now?
• We invite you to prayerfully listen to this sung interpretation of St. Teresa’s beautiful words – Christ Has No Body Now But Yours (4:24 minutes). It features Josh Garrels on lead vocals but he is joined by musicians, pastors, writers, and scholars from around the US, gathered to collaborate on worship songs around faith and vocation. As you listen, notice what moves in you from your hearing of the melody and lyrics, but also as you witness, with compassion, the Christ in the others who surround Josh.

You may wish to re-read the full email reflection here: https://mailchi.mp/coutreach/2024-word-of-the-week-july21

Ilia Delio’s sentence resonates deeply: “By nurturing our inner life through prayer and reflection, we become vessels of God’s boundless compassion, capable of bringing hope and healing to a fractured world.” St. Francis’ prayer came to mind as well: make me a channel of your peace. Vessels carry, channels flow, to those who need hope and healing. I don’t have to go far to encounter a fractured world. I pray peace and compassion be my offering daily. <3 linda

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“Compassion is the bridge between self and other, a path that leads to the heart of God”.  I got to this week’s WoW later than usual because of a power outage followed by three days getting all my devices functioning. Interesting how the timing of the Holy Spirit is spot on. in the week preceding  I had fallen into the tormentor  clutches of  insufficiency. A new or unfamiliar consciousness is opening,  that of seeing myself as being seen by me. Most unusual! A childhood theme of waiting surfaced. Much welcome prayer-ing is pealing back layers of insufficiency  that haunted my childhood. This morning I surprised myself , seeing another significant person in a new way on the same path as I am but in a different way. Together we are giving a face to compassion that bridges….

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