Process for Reflection

Suggested Process for Reflection

First, read one or more of the recommended Scriptures. Select one or two of the related Scriptures cited for your reading and reflection.

Second, think about what you have read.  Is there anything particularly that strikes you? Is there anything you don’t understand? Is there anything that you disagree with or that troubles you?

  In your own Missionary Cenacle experience, what most characterizes your missionary work?  What elements would you define as “essential” in understanding the work of the Missionary Cenacle?  Which elements would you would want to see passed on to the next generation of missionaries?

Third, talk to God about what you have read, thought, questioned, felt?  Tell God what is most on your mind and in your heart as you read or listened to these passages.  Any one of a range of emotions and feelings is possible to express to God: hope, joy, consolation, gratitude, anger, sorrow, adoration.  The important thing is to be as honest as possible in opening your heart up to God.

Fourth, sit quietly and do nothing.  Many times we are so preoccupied with talking to God that we don’t give God a chance to speak with us.  God speaks best in silence and in quiet so don’t be afraid to do nothing for a few moments and then, if there is still time, begin the process over again: read, think, talk, sit quietly.