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Exhaltation Of The "i"


DesiringMore

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BLAZEr,

I follow the Evansville Communion and Liberation community. I am a responsible for one of the Schools of Community. Where are you from? I am afraid that I am much bigger than the doll! :D

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Ooooh a responsible . . . now we really have to bone up on our Giussani! lol

I live in Texas, near the Houston community with Paolo Zaffaroni. I also used to be in New York with Fr. Rich and Christ Vath . . .

I am the irresponsible of our School fo Community . . . :lolol:

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Then you know John Gig! I am the responsible for the CL Silver group here - some of the older folks wanted to have their own School of Community, so I irresponsibly lead them. And I look nothing like the doll - my sisters in the community enjoy calling me that for some reason - ask JuCa and emalouhow.

The more I read of Juice, the more questions he generates.

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umm, I have only been to the Houston group twice! I think I know Jon, but I am not sure, cuz I don't really know last names, so maybe I know another Jon . . .

Paolo is our Responsible, and he is funny. I love it.

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WOW! This really has been a wonderful thread. I have enjoyed reading all the questions and responses. And I can only respond with what I know from my own experiences. I desire....I long...nothing is more real than that. And at the heart of all my desires is ultimately Christ because, as BLAZEr said, I desire happiness, justice, truth, beauty, love. Unfortunately, I don't always fulfill these desires with things that are good; but it's not the desire that is wrong, just my choice. If I truly look, Christ is at the heart of all I desire. And it is at the moments when I see His Presence that my "I" is exhalted. It's when someone smiles at me, or asks "How are you?" and really mean it. It's when I see a parent playing with their child at the park or when I catch a glimpse of some of the first snowflakes of the winter. It's a friend who came to meet you at the airport. It's holding the hand of an elderly man dying in the nursing home and hearing him say "I've been waiting for you." Leaps of the soul! "My soul proclaims the greatness of the Lord" because it can do nothing less...it leaps when He is near, if I am open and I recognize.

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PAOLO!!!!! I just love him!! :googoo: He is hilarious. I met him when I went to La Thuile in August. Tell him that Emily says HI :wave: (if he remembers me)

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Wow, what an amesome thread!! It was certainly a leap of my soul to read the original devotion and the replies!!

DesiringMore, You are right when you say that if we do not desire to challenge, move, change the people we interact with, if we do not desire to exalt their "I" then what kind of leaders are we? What kind of humans are we?

To be with someone and have your heart leap because you know that you are no longer with that person, you are with the Infinite. This is my greatest desire. To be moved, challenged by the relationships I form, by the people I am with, this is what generates me. I seek out and follow those people who make my heart leap.

But, what happens when those people who generate you, who make your heart leap, who exalt your "I" aren't around? What then?

And how do you know, concretely, when you exalt someone's "I". I know when my "I" is exalted. I feel my heart leap. I am moved, I am changed. But do the people who generate me, who make my heart leap, do they know they do this?

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But, what happens when those people who generate you, who make your heart leap, who exalt your "I" aren't around? What then?

Here I think the challenge becomes to not deny the experience you had when you were with them. To not ever say "What I experienced, wasn't real. It was a figment of my imagination, I did not actually experience the joy I remember with those people."

Then the quest becomes trying to find that "leap" of the heart again. If you know its real, if you know you experienced it, then you can experience it again, so every moment becomes a possible occasion for your heart to leap. You become a person always searching for that ULTIMATE heart Leap, the one where the heart will never come back down, it will soar.

I can speak from experience a little bit on this. This summer and much of this fall I felt down. I felt dead. I didn't really know I was dead, I didn't know I felt so down. I just stopped thinking about it, and I rested in that downness. And then, last week, I got togehter with CL and it was like I had come back to life. All of a sudden I felt a joy that awoke me to the fact that I had been forgetting the joy I had known, that I wasn't looking for it. That I was content with the ideology of religion, and not always seeking that moment of the fact of Christ.

And being with CL remdinded me of that Joy, so Christ was made present again and i recognized Him. It like Fr. Giussani says in his example of the Mily Way (which is my favorite). I was standing where I needed to be standing, at that moment, to see the Mystery. I am not sure if anyone else around me could see it, but from where I was, from where I stood, the Mystery was revealed to me again. amesome!

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