RETREAT 2017 (Batch 2015-2017) GUIDE IN PRAYING WITH THE SCRIPTURES

RETREAT: is a series of reflections whose purpose is to enable you to know yourself;  Invoke the Holy Spirit
to understand that you are not created for worthless things of this world but you are  Read the text slowly
destined for an infinitely highest form of happiness; to understand how you insult your
God when you act opposite to His Plan. (Don Bosco)  Live the Biblical story as your own… be present in the story
 Notice of the feelings, images and memories that surface
PRAYER affects your LIFE; LIFE affects your PRAYER
 God’s deepest desire to me
PRAYER affects your WORK; WORK affects your PRAYER  God’s attitude towards me

 Spending time to build relationship with my God  God’s willingness to get involve with me

 A loving surrender of one’s time with Him  God’s word to me..

PRAYER for beginners: talking to God and thinking about God

Contemplative prayer: builds relationship with God DRAW YOUR EPERIENCE AFTER PRAYER
(listen, pay attention, open our hearts to Him, seeing God in our life’s experiences) sPrayer before praying the Word of God:
Here I am Lord... called to come before You as I am.

PRAYING WITH THE SCRIPTURES Lord, let your Word be a lamp to my feet and a light on my path.
Give light to my understanding and show me the way I must walk.
Grant me the grace to express my hopes and fears for this retreat
 Allow the Word to interact, to enlighten into our live through our imagination.
and place them all in Your hands. Amen
 Imagination is more important that knowledge.
 It is a power within us which help us to make present what is not present.
 An act or power of forming mental images of what is not visibly present.
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WORD OF GOD

JESUS changes Water into Wine

I am…. (John 2:1-11)

On the third day, a wedding took place at Cana in Galilee. Jesus’

mother was there, and Jesus and his disciples had also been invited to
the wedding. When the wine was gone, Jesus’ mother said to him, “They have no more REFLECTION:
wine.”
“Dear woman, why do you involve me?” Jesus replied, “My time has not yet come.”
His mother said to the servants, “Do whatever he tells you.”
Nearby stood six stone water jars, the kind used by the Jews for ceremonial washing, each
holding from twenty to thirty gallons. Jesus said to the servants, “Fill the jars with water.”
So they filled them to the brim.

Where is the wine level in your life right

Then he told them, “Now draw some out and take it to the master of banquet.” now? Full? Half full? Empty?
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They did so, and the master of the banquet tasted the water that had been turned into
wine. He did not realize where it had come from, though the servants who had drawn the
What is draining you? Why?
water knew. Then he called the bridegroom aside and said, “Everyone brings out the
choice wine first and then the cheaper wine after the guests have had too much to drink; _________________________________
but you have saved the best till now.” _________________________________
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This is the first of his miraculous sign, Jesus performed at Cana of Galilee. He thus _________________________________
revealed his glory, and his disciples put their faith in him. _________________________________
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My Own Story

Where do you need to see a miracle?

Where do you need to see the water turned into wine in your life
right now?

 SELF ESTEEM: feeling worthless, useless, OP?

 FAMILY: problematic, haggard, hard up?

 WORK: feeling pushed, pressed overload, tired, not contented?

 APPEARANCE: feeling ugly or overweight?

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