{"id":6350,"date":"2016-10-28T16:32:09","date_gmt":"2016-10-28T14:32:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gc36.test\/it\/?p=6350"},"modified":"2017-09-07T16:11:25","modified_gmt":"2017-09-07T14:11:25","slug":"gesuiti-al-servizio-della-gioia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gc36.test\/it\/gesuiti-al-servizio-della-gioia\/","title":{"rendered":"I gesuiti – Al servizio della gioia"},"content":{"rendered":"

Pope Francis said to us at the beginning of this week: \u201cThe Jesuit is a servant of\u00a0the joy of the Gospel.\u201d and \u201cThe Good News ought not to be given with a sad\u00a0face, but rather, with joy!\u201d Furthermore he said: \u201cJoy is not only decorative, it is also a clear indicator of grace, it shows that love is active, working and present.\u201d But how do we find this deep Joy?
\nPope Francis explains it in his Apostolic Exhortation Envangelii Gaudium, where\u00a0he emphasizes that the source of joy is only the perpetual encounter with the\u00a0living God:
\n\u201cThanks solely to this encounter \u2013 or renewed encounter \u2013 with God\u2019s love, which blossoms into an enriching friendship, we are liberated from our narrowness and\u00a0self-absorption. We become fully human when we become more than human, when we let God bring us beyond ourselves in order to attain the fullest truth of our\u00a0being. Here we find the source and inspiration of all our efforts at evangelization.\u201c
\nEvangelii Gaudium, 8.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

God of all Consolation and Source of all true life, we praise you for you gave us everything in the coming of Jesus Christ, he, your incarnate mercy!
\nSave us from narrowness and self-absorption.
\nGrant us the grace of the discernment of Spirits to discover the difference between long lasting joys and transient joys.
\nGrant us us the grace of love, broadmindedness and magnanimity.
\nGrant us the grace of consolation and joy.
\nSo that we may be true and faithful Servants of your gospel with a heart filled with your love and with a face radiating the joy of your resurrection.
\nWe ask this through Christ our Lord.<\/p>\n

Amen.<\/p>\n

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