General Chapter, 1998
Internet site by Scott Steinkerchner OP
email: steinkerchner@op.org
| G e n e r a l C h a p t e r | B o l o g n a '9 8 |
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Mark 12:1-8
Dear sisters, dear brothers,
after having had four days of welcoming and thinking on important issues in a profound manner and after a day of reconciliation, today the chapter will start it's ordinary work. The commissions will come into function and we will be led by the norms of procedure.
Taking that into account we could look at it as providential that todays gospel will remind us that even pious and religious rules can become dangerous: Once on a Sabbath Jesus walked through the standing grain. His disciples felt hungry, so they began to pull off the heads of the grain. The Pharisees protested: Your disciples are doing what is not permitted."
They do what is not permitted - If we are willing to follow Jesus' answer to that protest we could come as well to consequences which might appear as "doing what is not permitted". Whoever is about to meet the bounderies, to meet "the other", to preach in dialogue will meet as well the danger of beeing looked at as not obedient and beyond rules and legislation. I suppose we will face this difficulty in our work ahead from time to time. In these moments let us remember well the criteria of our Lord: It is mercy I desire and not sacrifice.
We won't have a homily during this Holy Eucharist. But we will have a
witness of faith after the first reading. I asked Sr. Margeret Ormond to
share with us, what Holy Spirit granted her, when she looked at and prayed
with the text of the prophet Is.
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