Sunday, March 31, 2019

HNS Spring Campaign

OUR 2019 SPRING CAMPAIGN
Dear Friends,

Just a reminder that we are now halfway through our annual spring campaign. This is a crucial time on our fundraising calendar as we introduce new initiatives and continue with our important existing outreaches. If you haven't done so already, please consider supporting our work during this time.

Thank you so much for being a part of our Henri Nouwen Society community. Because of your encouragement and support, we have been able to continue to speak hope into the hearts of so many through Henri Nouwen's words and insights.
 
With gratitude for the part you play in sustaining our community,

Faithfully,






Karen Pascal
Executive Director




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Reflection for the Fourth Sunday of Lent

Reflection for the Fourth Sunday of Lent
I will sing of your steadfast love, O Lord, forever.
Psalm 89:1
A Cry for Mercy 

O Lord, this holy season of Lent is passing quickly. I entered into it with fear, but also with great expectations. I hoped for a great breakthrough, a powerful conversion, a real change of heart; I wanted Easter to be a day so full of light that not even a trace of darkness would be left in my soul.

But I know that you do not come to your people with thunder and lightning. Even St. Paul and St. Francis journeyed through much darkness before they could see your light. Let me be thankful for your gentle way. I know you are at work. I know you will not leave me alone. I know you are quickening me for Easter - but in a way fitting to my own history and my own temperament.
 
I pray that these last three weeks, in which you invite me to enter more fully into the mystery of your passion, will bring me a greater desire to follow you on the way that you create for me and to accept the cross that you give to me. Let me die to the desire to choose my own way and select my own desire. You do not want to make me a hero but a servant who loves you.

Be with me tomorrow and in the days to come, and let me experience your gentle presence. Amen.

 
 
Lent Online Book Discussion

Join us as we reflect on Henri Nouwen's Walk With Jesus. Facilitated by Ray Glennon, you are welcome to participate in any way that is spiritually nourishing for you.

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Excerpt from A Cry for Mercy: Prayers from the Genesee, Copyright © 1981 Henri J.M. Nouwen. Published by Doubleday. Used with kind permission of the publisher. 
 
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New Nouwen Meditation: A Prayer

DAILY MEDITATION | MARCH 31, 2019
A Prayer
Dear Lord,

Help me keep my eyes on you. You are the incarnation of Divine Love, you are the expression of God’s infinite compassion, you are the visible manifestation of the Father’s holiness. You are beauty, goodness, gentleness, forgiveness, and mercy. In you all can be found. Outside of you nothing can be found. Why should I look elsewhere or go elsewhere? You have the words of eternal life, you are food and drink, you are the Way, the Truth, and the Life. You are the light that shines in the darkness, the lamp on the lampstand, the house on the hilltop. You are the perfect Icon of God. In and through you I can see the Heavenly Father, and with you I can find my way to him. O Holy One, Beautiful One, Glorious One, be my Lord, my Savior, my Redeemer, my Guide, my Consoler, my Comforter, my Hope, my Joy, and my Peace. To you I want to give all that I am. Let me be generous, not stingy or hesitant. Let me give you all—all that I have, think, do, and feel. It is yours, O Lord. Please accept it and make it fully your own.

Amen.
“May the grace of the Lord Jesus Christ, and the love of God, and the fellowship of the Holy Spirit be with you all.”

2 CORINTHIANS 13:14 (NIV)
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Saturday, March 30, 2019

New Nouwen Meditation: We are on a Journey

DAILY MEDITATION | MARCH 30, 2019
We are on a Journey
Where are we going? After a very short visit to earth the time comes for each of us to pass from this world to the next. We have been sent into the world as God’s beloved children, and in our passages and our losses we learn to love each other as spouse, parent, brother, or sister. We support one another through the passages of life, and together we grow in love. Finally, we ourselves are called to exodus, and we leave the world for full communion with God. It is possible for us, like Jesus, to send our spirit of love to our friends when we leave them. Our spirit, the love we leave behind, is deeply in God’s Spirit. It is our greatest gift to those we love.

We, like Jesus, are on a journey, living to make our lives abundantly fruitful through our leaving. When we leave, we will say the words that Jesus said: “It is good for you that I leave, because unless I pass away, I cannot send you my spirit to help you and inspire you.”
“And God is able to make all grace abound to you, so that in all things at all times, having all that you need, you will abound in every good work.”

2 CORINTHIANS 8:8 (NIV)
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