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"From Him, the Master, the whole light…. " Contemplating the picture of the Master. The great objective of our life, confirmed always by the Blessed Alberione is this: "To live Jesus, in Jesus, for Jesus, with Jesus. Establish our life in Him.". - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
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"From Him, the
Master, the whole
light…. " Contemplating
the picture of the Master
The great objective of our
life, confirmed always
by the Blessed Alberione is
this:
"To live Jesus, in Jesus,
for Jesus, with Jesus.
Establish our life in Him."
The central point of our
spirituality
is an attraction that produces
a deep interpersonal
relationship:
"Come to me".
The Master is the one
who attracts us to himself,
who invites us to enter in his
logic and in his horizons…
Let us invoke the light
of the Spirit to
understand always
better what
he wants to tell us
"to establish our life
in the Master",
what it means
to be called to
communicate
the unfathomable
riches
of the love of God.
Let us feel being gazed
by Jesus Master and let us
look
at the details of the picture
that expresses a visual
synthesis of the Pauline
charism.
All the characteristic
elements
of the Pauline vocation
are present.
The open book The open book
in the left hand in the left hand
and the writing: and the writing:
"I am the Way "I am the Way
and the Truth and the and the Truth and the
Life"Life" (content to (content to
receive and receive and
to communicate every to communicate every
day in the apostolate); day in the apostolate);
The gesture The gesture
of the exhortation of the exhortation
by the right hand by the right hand
of the one who asks of the one who asks
for listening and for listening and
attention…attention…
"learn from me""learn from me"
The standing entire figure: The standing entire figure:
not sitting as the ancient not sitting as the ancient
teachers teachers
but an itinerant Master but an itinerant Master
on the paths of men and on the paths of men and
women women
of every time. of every time.
A Master who wears sandals…
Standing on the terrestrial globe… Standing on the terrestrial globe… not with the globe in hand as in some pictures, not with the globe in hand as in some pictures,
but on the path of men and women, but on the path of men and women, always on the move.always on the move.
A Master who has the signs of the passion A Master who has the signs of the passion
on the hands and on the feet (he is a crucified on the hands and on the feet (he is a crucified
Master), Master),
that not only teach but gives life, that not only teach but gives life,
he is the Master with the heart of a Shepherd. he is the Master with the heart of a Shepherd.
The signs of the passion are dazzling: the The signs of the passion are dazzling: the
bright cross bright cross
as halo around the head, which points out that as halo around the head, which points out that
our Master is a crucified and risen Master: our Master is a crucified and risen Master:
Living and glorious. Living and glorious.
In front of this
beautiful picture
that is very
significant
for us, let us
welcome
in silence the
invitation of the
Master:
"Come to me… Come
to me, totally, with
your whole person."
"In November 1900, at the end of the Holy Year, Leo XIII promulgated an encyclical which was destined to look into the new century that was beginning and to
give a direction to Christianity of the new century. The
direction was this: to study, to imitate, to follow Jesus Christ who is Way, Truth and Life. It is not a beautiful
expression, nor a suggestion, but it is the substance of the
Congregation, to be or not to be Paulines. There must not be any
deviations. The study has to be conformed to the devotion
to Jesus Master the Way, the Truth and the Life; the religious discipline has to conform itself to Jesus
Master the Way, the Truth and the Life; prayer life has to conform itself
to Jesus Master the Way, the Truth and the Life; the apostolate has to give this. When it does not give this,
it is out of place and it is not blessed. When it gives this, it is on his path, the way of God.
Then follows benedictions after benedictions…".
(James Alberione)
"Oh, when grace takes
possession
of a soul, it is like when the
yeast
is placed in the dough! It makes
it
to grow so much as to change it
into Jesus and that soul then
will speak like Jesus, thinks like
Jesus, gazes like Jesus, loves
like Jesus; this souls life is no
more ones own but Jesus lives
in it (…) ".
Through us Jesus wants to
speak, think, love and live…. Meditation to the FSP
on December 10th 1932
Jesus Master, may I think with your mind and wisdom.May I love with your heart.May I see with your eyes.May I speak with your tongue.May I hear with your ears.May I relish the things you relish.May my hands be yours.May my feet follow in your footsteps.May I pray using your words.May I treat others as you do.May I celebrate the Eucharist with your self-immolation.May I dwell in you as you do in me, to the point that I disappear. (James Alberione)
Heavenly Father,
you have invited us
to follow you more closely.
Today renew for us that call,
which has marked forever our life
and the life of the Founder:
"Come to me, all of you".
Grant us the same spirit of
Blessed Alberione, so that we
may enter into
a journey of transformation,
to be not only of Christ
but to become Christ (cf VC 109),
to be the place of his life in
imitation of our Father St. Paul:
"I live, but no longer I, but
Christ lives in me" (Gal 2,20).