spiritual

2. RENEW OUR COMMUNITY,
NEIGHBORHOOD, AND FAMILY LIFE
 Whoever wants to be the most important among you must become the servant
of all, and whoever wants to be the first must become the slave of all.
 SONG

4. PRAYER OF DISPOSITION
 We thank you Lord for the journey of our community, for the time we have
spent meeting and walking together. Thank you for accompany us and
teaching us to share life and hope, for the experience of faith, communion
and hospitality; for all the work done in the quest to build the Kingdom of
God.
 We ask that in this meeting – at a personal and community level – you help us
to renew our community, neighborhood and family life to get out of the
community dynamisms that enslave us and do not give us life. Give us a noble
heart, friendly attitudes full of encouragement to build communities.
 Give us the strength we need to get out of the spaces and dynamisms of
hostility towards others and encourage us to cross our deserts to build a new
humanity, more just and equitable forms of relationship between peoples,
churches, ideologies. Good God, teach us to be bridges of dialogue.

5. POINTS FOR REFLECTION
 COMMUNITY.
 Land of hostilities: that which destroys community life
(exclusion dynamics, discrimination, violence, abuse,
etc.)
 Hospitable community: that which builds respect for
differences, fair and equitable human relations,
making and respecting agreements, welcoming and
inclusion, etc.
 From each list, put a number -from 1 to 5- from the
most important to the least important.

6. PERSONAL AND FAMILY LIFE
 Land of hostilities: make a list of our vicious circles, of
what does not make us feel comfortable at home, family
and personal anti-values, the spaces in which we need to
grow humanly, etc.
 Hospital family: list of our personal and family attitudes
that give us life, that create a healthy environment and
empathy, communication of ideas and feelings, etc.
 From each list, put a number -from 1 to 5- from the most
important to the least important.

7. TO PONDER
 Mark 10, 35-45
James and John ask for the first places
 Then James and John, the sons of Zebedee, came to him and said to him, “Teacher, we want
you to do for us whatever we ask of you.” He replied, “What do you wish [me] to do for you?”
They answered him, “Grant that in your glory we may sit one at your right and the other at
your left.”
 Jesus said to them, “You do not know what you are asking. Can you drink the cup that I drink
or be baptized with the baptism with which I am baptized?” They said to him, “We can.”
Jesus said to them, “The cup that I drink, you will drink, and with the baptism with which I
am baptized, you will be baptized; but to sit at my right or at my left is not mine to give but
is for those for whom it has been prepared.”
 When the ten heard this, they became indignant at James and John. Jesus summoned them
and said to them, “You know that those who are recognized as rulers over the Gentiles lord it
over them, and their great ones make their authority over them felt. But it shall not be so
among you. Rather, whoever wishes to be great among you will be your servant; whoever
wishes to be first among you will be the slave of all. For the Son of Man did not come to be
served but to serve and to give his life as a ransom for many.”

8. QUESTIONS TO SHARE
 What does the reading tell us about the apostles' way of
living together? Was it all harmony? Did they also have
their differences?
 What generates differences and hostile environments
between them?
 How does Jesus resolve the situation? What does he put
the emphasis on?

9. QUESTIONS TO MAKE GOD'S WORD ALIVE
 What difficulties or conflicts have we had as a community, family or
group? What is the central point of the difficulties or conflicts that we
have had as a community?
 What does Jesus tell us? What is Jesus inviting us to?
 What attitudes of welcome, inclusion and hospitality do we want to
build as a community/family?
 What do we want to commit ourselves to this Lent? Put one or two
concrete actions to be carried out in community.

10. PRAY/CELEBRATE
 For the occasions that we do not place Jesus and his
Kingdom as the source and center of the life of our
community. Lord, have mercy
 For the occasions that we have not been able to apologize
to the community and the sisters. Lord, have mercy
 For the occasions that we have not been able to listen,
dialogue, resolve differences in an adult and responsible
manner. Lord, have mercy

11. HARVEST OF THE DAY/EVALUATION
 Answer in a single word (that is not good, bad or regular) How do I go out
from here today?
 What do I take from today's session?
 CLOSING PRAYER SONG