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NOTICING ELEMENTS IN THE PROCESS OF COMMUNAL DISCERNMENT
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PROCESS INTENSIVE• Defining the matter for discernment
• Considering the matter for discernment in prayer-reflection
• Interpreting the prayer-reflection experience
• Engaging in Spiritual Conversation
• Interpreting the Spiritual Conversation experience
• Arriving at a consensus and decision
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The environment has changed but the
community has not changed accordginly. Moving in
different directions
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“PRAYER SAVES TIME.” — Francis Clark, SJ
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“However, discernment, in its essence, is not about making decisions or about resolving questions or problems.
It is, fundamentally, a way of being.
It is about seeing how the Spirit is at work in our lives and in our world.
It is about learning how to feel where the Spirit is moving and to learn how to follow that direction.
If we learn to tune in like this then decisions on concrete points will follow more easily..”
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PROCESS INTENSIVE
SELFOTHERS
GOD
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“In going back and forth between the self, others, and God,
what effects does the process bring about?”
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EXPANSION OF HORIZON
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FUSION OF HORIZONS
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What are common? different?in agreement? in opposition?
in harmony? lack of harmony?
resonance? dissonance?in sync? out of sync?
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DIVERSITY... DISAGREEMENT ... CONFLICT
are not barriers to the process of communal discernment.
They are precisely the means to cultivate
DIALOGUE ... UNDERSTANDING ... LEARNING ... MUTUAL RESPECT.
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The process itself, notwithstanding the outcome, has the potential to build the community.
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What are qualities of a good process of discernment?
parts and whole
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What are qualities of a good process of discernment?
expressed
and
unexpressed
aware
and
unaware
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What are qualities of a good process of discernment?
good to better
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What are qualities of a good process of discernment?
greater loving
more life-giving
Ignatian indifference Commitment
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CONSENSUS
DECISION
PRAYER AND REFLECTION
SPIRITUAL CONVERSATION
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CONSENSUS
DECISION
PRAYER AND REFLECTION
SPIRITUAL CONVERSATION
PREPARATION
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“What you do before prayer is as important as praying itself.”
“WHAT WE DO BEFORE DISCERNMENT
IS AS IMPORTANT AS THE FORMAL DISCERNMENT ITSELF.”
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Credits to Chris Keng for this slide.
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DATA GATHERING IS AN IMPORTANT ELEMENT
IN PREPARATION FOR A GOOD COMMUNAL DISCERNMENT.
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Credits to ignatianresources.org
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Credits to Chris Keng for this slide.
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RESEARCH
NOT ONLY FOR INFORMATION
BUT FOR FORMATION
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CONSENSUS
PRAYER
REFLECTION
SPIRITUAL
CONVERSATION
DATA GATHERING
MATTER FOR DISCERNMENT
CONFIRMATION OF DECISION
DECISION
OVERVIEW OF THE PROCESS OF COMMUNAL DISCERNMENT