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...The purpose of formation is to make one
grow in prayer, love of God and fraternal love. |
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...We will advance if we are sincere
students. |
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...The aim of formation is to improve the
quality of community life. |
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...The accent given to
intellectual formation these days could make it difficult for grace to
enter the heart. Without being open to grace, which is the real
agent of formation, no amount of academic formation will do any good. |
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...Meditating on the
Rule* and gaining personal understanding of it is more important
than reading a commentary. |
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...Remembrance of my 'earnest beginnings'
in the novitiate still helps me to renew myself. |
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(*Rule is of St.
Benedict, the classic manual for monks in the West dating from the 6th
century in Italy. Ed) |
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