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Bro. Basilio Rueda Guzmán, “Community Life”, Circular 6th June 1970 Meditation 05 cepam.
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Bro. Basilio Rueda Guzmán, “Community Life”, Circular 6th June 1970 Meditation 05 cepam
“When, in the sermon on the mount, Our Lord commands us to love our enemies he means all types of men. That means that there are no exceptions: if we are to love our enemies, and those who harm us, there is not one to whom we can refuse our love without ceasing to be really Christians.” (Bro. Basilio Rueda Guzmán, “Community Life”, Circular 6th june 1970, Vol. XXV, N° 2,p. 101)
“Would it be necessary to begin by asking whether the members of our communities love one another; because a common life without love of one another would be an absurdity and a straying from the path. That would be peaceful coexistence of self-centeredness, well organized in all desirable respects.” (Bro. Basilio Rueda Guzmán, “Community Life”, Circular 6th june 1970, Vol. XXV, N° 2,p. 111)
“As did the first Christians, we must renew ourselves as often as the gift of Our Lord is communicated to us, and received with fidelity and seriousness. The characteristic of Christ is to communicate himself to us, to wish to pass to others, to be diffusive of himself, when he enters a heart.” (Bro. Basilio Rueda Guzmán, “Community Life”, Circular 6th june 1970, Vol. XXV, N° 2,p. 112)
“The common life is the fruit of love because love is unifying and creative. It has united those who, loving, have engendered a new being — the community. This latter urged on by the dialectic of charity will become, by its condition of authentic Christian community, missionary and apostolic.” (Bro. Basilio Rueda Guzmán, “Community Life”, Circular 6th june 1970, Vol. XXV, N° 2,p. 117)
“One must promote and initiate community life, but on the level of a person to person relationship. The common life is then directly connected with love. That is not a case of excessive adherence to timetable and to rules.” (Bro. Basilio Rueda Guzmán, “Community Life”, Circular 6th june 1970, Vol. XXV, N° 2,p. 120)
Let the words you have just read sink into your soul. Pray Jesus through Mary that you may understand them in order to live them up.