† The Word of God was made flesh

Occasional Newsletter edited and published by the Society of Christian Doctrine, M.U.S.E.U.M. Malta.

Society of Christian Doctrine
M.U.S.E.U.M.
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Blata l-Bajda HMR 03 - Malta
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E-mail: sdc@waldonet.net.mt
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Editorial

 

We resolve to love

   Before we begin our meetings, we gather to pray the introductory prayer, 'The Resolution'. In this prayer we resolve to love one another with great love.

   Our humanity often gets in the way and we sometimes find it difficult to sustain this love and end up at having difficulty accepting and loving each other unconditionally.

   Thus we need to learn the art or the ability of reconciling our strained relationships, we can therefore speak of the need of an education towards reconciliation.

   It is very common for the great majority of our Centres that Members meet each other on a daily basis. When we meet we teach, we learn, we pray, we talk and we socialize. Yet it is also very common that although we do so many things together we seldom go deep into our inter-personal relationships and many do opt to remain at the surface or more bluntly even to be very superficial in their encounters.
  
   Let us therefore strive to empower our communities to grow in the art of dialogue, of being able to share experiences and reflections in order to reach a more complete vision of ourselves, of our groups and of the entire world in which we live. Let us also keep in mind that dialogue should serve as a catalyst for the community to grow in companionship.
 
   If we approach each other with any form of criticism or protest which makes a fruitful dialogue difficult or completely impossible, we will be responsible of practicing a vice and not a virtue.



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