The Community of All Angels: Benedictines in Exile

The Community of All Angels: Benedictines in Exile The angels have historically been understood to be messengers of God. They often encourage those they visit to "fear not" and bring comfort and guidance.

LGBTQA communities have a message from God as well and it can easily be summarized in English as Love Wins! Saint Paul carried the Gospel among the gentiles and wrote his letters to advise the new converts. He functioned as one of the intermediaries between the gentiles and the Jewish community. He played a vital role in building bridges that had previously only been laid for commerce and under mi

litary might. The Benedictine monastic is very much a peace keeper and a counselor. Like the angels we have something to communicate from our experience of sexuality to the churches and something from our faith lives to communicate to the LGBTQA communities. As Karen Armstrong has said, The Charter of Compassion and the Age of Appreciation has dawned. The Community of All Angels affirms God's mercy for every sinner and doesn't single out a group for "extra" punishment or disparate treatment. The Exile is imposed by the Churches who fail to accommodate the human rights of their members whether they due so for gender or for sexuality. The hostility portrayed in the popular media against organized religion stems from the immature and undeveloped leadership behaviors of those with Church or Religious administration. Culpability does not exist with the victims of discrimination. Exile is imposed by highlighting the truth about the imbalance of power and authority displayed by religious people and their leaders.

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12/27/2016

Day 27

All of lead busy lives. We yearn for a few moments of quiet to slow down and pull ourselves together. De Sales shows us some simple ways to do this, even in the busyness of our lives.

"Always remember to retire at various times into the solitude of your own heart even while outwardly engaged in discussions of transactions with others. This mental solitude cannot be violated by the many people who surround you since they are not standing around your heart but only around your body. Your heart remains alone in the presence of God... Indeed our tasks are seldom so important as to keep us from withdrawing our hearts from them from time to time in order to retire into this divine solitude."

---Introduction, Part 2, Chapter 12 (p. 97)

"Make spiritual aspirations (ejaculatory prayers) to God by short ardent movements of the heart ... If our mind thus habituates itself in intimacy, privacy, and familiarity with God, it will be complete perfumed by his perfections. There is no difficulty in this exercise, as it may be interspersed among all our tasks and duties without any inconvenience, since in this spiritual retirement or amid these interior aspirations we only relax quickly and briefly. This does not hinder but rather assists us greatly in what we do...Since the great work of devotion consists in such use of spiritual recollection and ejaculatory prayers, it can supply the lack of all other prayers, but its loss can hardly be repaired by other means."

---Introduction, Part 2, Chapter 13 (p. 98-103)

Prayer thought for the day: Lord, draw me often to Your presence in my heart today.

All Angels Priory...home for the holidays!
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All Angels Priory...home for the holidays!

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Photography - Jari Mantyla

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Truly it is in the darkness that one finds the light, so when we are in sorrow, then this light is nearest all of us.
~ Meister Eckhart

~ Image by Veronika Pinke

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