#Andre Louf

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Preparing the soil

Removal of Weeds Before Digging Introduction and Definition of Spiritual Accompaniment Nutt set out to define Spiritual Direction (Spiritual Accompaniment) and did not accomplish this.[1] However Barry and Connolly have a helpful definition, We define Christian spiritual direction, then, as help given by one believer to another that enables the latter to pay attention to God’s personal…

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"To give everything to Jesus always means to give from our poverty and that is not an easy thing to do. But it is precisely this gift that Jesus expects from us all . . . To give from our poverty means, first of all, to know that we are poor, that we have discovered in ourselves the wound for which (for that matter) no one is responsible but which for ever makes us utterly poor indeed, poor to a degree we would not dare to admit to ourselves. . . . The widow accepts the fact that she wants to give what she has because Jesus looked at her and accepted her as she was. Happy are they who dare to give from their poverty; in the eyes of Jesus they have given everything they had."

(Fr. Andre Louf, O.C.S.O.)

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SPIRITUALITÉ : André Louf, maître de prière 78682 homes

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SPIRITUALITÉ : André Louf, maître de prière

Seigneur, apprends-nous à prier, d’André Louf, Artège, coll. « Les Classiques de la spiritualité », 2018, 256 p., 8,90 €Une recension de David Roure, la-croix.comDans cet ouvrage publié pour la première fois en 1972. André Louf, décédé en 2010, livre d’abord le témoignage d’une tradition millénaire de prière dans l’Église de Jésus.Élu jeune comme père abbé du Mont-des-Cats, en fait durant le concile de Vatican II, dom André Louf (1929-2010) a toujours…

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Grace Can Do More: Spiritual Accompaniment & Spiritual Growth by Andre Louf Pape

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"When the hour has really arrived, God's grace will also be there, and very small things may suffice to help in our simple acceptance of and cooperation with grace. What counts is the recognition of our real cross. Often it is much more difficult to recognize the cross Jesus intends for us personally than to accept it once we have recognized it. We are inclined to think, furthermore, that our crosses would not be so painful if we could immediately see them. There lies the rub which usually disturbs those who have opted for a life of detachment. Their temptation consists in imagining that they already know beforehand what their cross or time of testing will be. Unfortunately, a cross one knows in advance, even if it is fairly heavy, is no longer the cross of Jesus. Our real cross is always to some degree unanticipated and always seems to far surpass our strength. As a rule, we would never have chosen it. Passionately to cling to a cross of our own choosing and perhaps unconsciously but equally passionately to reject the cross that Jesus intends for us is perhaps the heaviest and most discouraging cross. It could keep us forever from taking up our real cross if Jesus did not at some time intervene. For what is our cross other than Jesus himself? To accept this cross is to accept him. It is simultaneously 'to take up our cross' and to follow him. Undoubtedly, if we could know God's gift, if we could see and recognize it, we would not have an easier time of it." (Father Andre Louf, O.C.S.O.)

[hieromonkcharbel]

"When the hour has really arrived, God's grace will also be there, and very small things may suffice to help in our simple acceptance of and cooperation with grace. What counts is the recognition of our real cross. Often it is much more difficult to recognize the cross Jesus intends for us personally than to accept it once we have recognized it. We are inclined to think, furthermore, that our crosses would not be so painful if we could immediately see them. There lies the rub which usually disturbs those who have opted for a life of detachment. Their temptation consists in imagining that they already know beforehand what their cross or time of testing will be. Unfortunately, a cross one knows in advance, even if it is fairly heavy, is no longer the cross of Jesus. Our real cross is always to some degree unanticipated and always seems to far surpass our strength. As a rule, we would never have chosen it. Passionately to cling to a cross of our own choosing and perhaps unconsciously but equally passionately to reject the cross that Jesus intends for us is perhaps the heaviest and most discouraging cross. It could keep us forever from taking up our real cross if Jesus did not at some time intervene. For what is our cross other than Jesus himself? To accept this cross is to accept him. It is simultaneously 'to take up our cross' and to follow him. Undoubtedly, if we could know God's gift, if we could see and recognize it, we would not have an easier time of it."

Father Andre Louf, O.C.S.O.

[hieromonkcharbel]

"To give everything to Jesus always means to give from our poverty and that is not an easy thing to do. But it is precisely this gift that Jesus expects from us all . . . To give from our poverty means, first of all, to know that we are poor, that we have discovered in ourselves the wound for which (for that matter) no one is responsible but which for ever makes us utterly poor indeed, poor to a degree we would not dare to admit to ourselves. . . . The widow accepts the fact that she wants to give what she has because Jesus looked at her and accepted her as she was. Happy are they who dare to give from their poverty; in the eyes of Jesus they have given everything they had."

(Fr. Andre Louf, O.C.S.O.)