{"id":59676,"date":"2018-12-18T07:45:17","date_gmt":"2018-12-18T06:45:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/emmanuel.info\/en\/?p=59676"},"modified":"2019-09-24T17:09:31","modified_gmt":"2019-09-24T16:09:31","slug":"emmanuel-community-netherlands-a-step-of-formation-with-a-view-to-male-celibacy-for-the-kingdom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/emmanuel.info\/en\/emmanuel-community-netherlands-a-step-of-formation-with-a-view-to-male-celibacy-for-the-kingdom\/","title":{"rendered":"Emmanuel Community, Netherlands: A step of formation with a view to male celibacy for the Kingdom"},"content":{"rendered":"

My name is Guido le Noble and here’s my testimony:<\/h3>\n
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Last December 9, I made the step of formation with a view to celibacy for the Kingdom within the Emmanuel Community.<\/a> \"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

This step was preceded by a long time of wandering and hesitating. In fact, since I left the ESM in Paray le Monial<\/a> (France) in 1990, I was attracted to Consecrated life. I attended several weekends with the consecrated brothers but these serious attempts to go further on this path alternated with phases of having a girlfriend.\u00a0 It seemed like each time I draw nearer to consecrated life, I thought that I was going to miss something by renouncing marriage.<\/p>\n

Then, two things helped me to finally go forward towards the step I took.<\/p>\n

The fir\"\"<\/a>st: I was fed up with meandering, going this way, going that way, without arriving at any destination. It felt like staying on a crossroad. So I decided to retreat for a few days in a convent. I really urged God to give me a clear answer. During that time in the convent, I immersed myself in prayer. These hours of prayer before the Blessed Sacrament were mentored by a priest. Upon leaving the retreat, I had a very clear answer and great joy.<\/p>\n

Yet, it would take years to move further forward in a decisive way.<\/p>\n

For that, it took a second important means of help: friendship. God gave me a friend who himself was seeking his path, his vocation. This friend made me aware that, if God shows us where our full happiness lies, we will have to take a step to reach that destiny. To take a concrete step, I needed this friendship. By sharing to him all my battles and weaknesses, I realised that they were not obstacles, but so to say, even necessary for living and to realize my calling!<\/p>\n

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My name is Guido le Noble and here’s my testimony: Last December 9, I made the step of formation with a view to celibacy for the Kingdom within the Emmanuel Community. This step was preceded by a long time of wandering and hesitating. In fact, since I left the ESM in Paray le Monial (France) […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":102,"featured_media":59679,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_members_access_role":[],"_members_access_error":""},"categories":[4,28,29,14,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-59676","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-highlights","category-committed-in-celibacy","category-community-life","category-europe","category-news"],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/emmanuel.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2018\/12\/Guido-3.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/emmanuel.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59676","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/emmanuel.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/emmanuel.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emmanuel.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/102"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emmanuel.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=59676"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/emmanuel.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59676\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emmanuel.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/59679"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/emmanuel.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=59676"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emmanuel.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=59676"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emmanuel.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=59676"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}