#TRIPLE COLLOQUY SERIES#

Now is an excellent time to consider what ministries should start, which should stop, and which should continue as we may see people back in our midst that have not been with us for some time. First with Mary, then with Jesus and finally with God. During this prayer experience, you have three (triple) conversations. So, what is the Triple Colloquy The word colloquy simply means conversation.

#TRIPLE COLLOQUY SERIES#

At times this involves a series of three conversations beginning with Mary, continuing with Jesus, and culminating with the Father. Ignatius introduces this prayer during the Spiritual Exercises. Some particular areas to consider are the personal attitude and action of the staff and volunteers, the parish website and communications, and even the experience of the individual when they return to your buildings for worship. A colloquy, as Ignatius describes, is a conversation that, is made, properly speaking, as one friend speaks to another ( SE 54). Be ready to offer ways to return and do so with a sense of hospitality and welcome. We ask you to listen to their needs and offer these, and your own, resources as they may apply. Accompaniment of these souls, suffering in their wounded-ness and in need of healing, will require patience and understanding from us, their communities of faith. Many are broken and afraid, they have lost loved ones and jobs, their lives have been upended, and now, even the familiar solace of worship has been altered. We know that there are so many things to consider and the mindset of our parishioners and community members is paramount among these. Therefore, we ask you to prayerfully discern with a focus on mercy, restoration, and consolation, the ministries of your parish in service to the community as we enter into Advent and the Christmas season. We strive to support you in your ongoing efforts to continue to improve. You have become media experts and technology wizards all in the name of serving Jesus in the mission! You have continued the mission and given every effort to come up with creative and ingenious ways to connect to the people of your communities. I end with the Our Father.As we enter into what is usually our busiest time of year, we support you and we pray with you. Third, I make these same requests directly of the Father, that He Himself, the eternal Lord of all, may give them to me.Then, I say the Jesus Prayer several times. Second, I talk with Mary's Son, and ask Jesus to obtain these same three gifts for me from the Father.+ A faith-filled knowledge of and insight into the world around me, and a disgust with its values and hollow pursuits. + A strong grasp of the disorder in these ways of mine-an understanding of them that fills me with horror and that moves me to straighten out my life. + A knowledge of my own sins that gets under the surface of just what I did, and a feeling of revulsion from these attitudes, decisions, actions, customs, habits. First, I talk with the Mother of Jesus, asking her to obtain from her own Son these favors:.After that, I use these three colloquies in this way: I consider some particular points from the meditations on the sin of the angels, of the First Parents, of one person, or from the meditations on my own sins. I would even ask God to fill my heart with tears, and my eyes, if He will give me that. I want to feel ashamed of what I have done and left undone, and to have a sense of revulsion from the disorderliness of my desiring and enacting. Then I ask of God what I want: A deeper and deeper understanding of my sin and sinfulness. I compose my sinful self in this sin-filled world.ģ.

Triple colloquy