{"id":59964,"date":"2019-03-05T23:59:59","date_gmt":"2019-03-05T22:59:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/emmanuel.info\/en\/?p=59964"},"modified":"2019-09-24T17:08:03","modified_gmt":"2019-09-24T16:08:03","slug":"lent-with-pierre-goursat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/emmanuel.info\/en\/lent-with-pierre-goursat\/","title":{"rendered":"Lent with Pierre Goursat – Day1"},"content":{"rendered":"
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With the help of Pierre Goursat, founder of the Emmanuel Community, let us move forward together during this Lenten Season<\/h3>\n
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Throughout Lent, let us ask Pierre\u00a0 <\/a>Words<\/em> of advice to help us follow Jesus …<\/strong><\/div>\n
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This is what Pierre wrote in 1971, a few weeks before the experience of the Holy Spirit, for the benefit of the young people in the school of prayer that the two of us were leading with a small team:<\/p>\n

“To pray is to love Jesus.\u00a0 It is granting Him an interview:\"\"<\/a> it is a reversal of roles! We might think that it is He who agrees to grant us an appointment. Well, not at all! He is always there, waiting for us day and night, He never gets tired, and it\u2019s us, who do not welcome Him. So when we do accept, think of his joy, and how warmly we are made welcome. [\u2026]<\/em><\/p>\n

It is faith that makes us understand this, by believing literally the words that Jesus said: \u201cLook, I am standing at the door and knocking. If one of you hears Me calling I will come in share a meal at the person\u2019s side (Rev 3:20)<\/em><\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>We must pray so that God\u2019s grace may permeate us, take us, and transform us, otherwise, we remain only skin-deep.<\/em><\/p>\n

The First point is to pray: personal prayer, prayer with 2, 3, 4 or 5 others, and then in community \u2026 otherwise you are in mortal danger\u00a0 \u2026 So we must have a minimum time of prayer and that is what the Lord asks of us”<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n[\/su_panel]\n

Excerpts from:\u00a0\u00a0 \"\"\u00a0<\/a><\/strong>Martine Catta\u00a0 \u201cWords of Pierre Goursat\u201d<\/em><\/a> p 100; 102<\/p>\n

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Watch the film “<\/strong>Pierre Goursat and the Emmanuel Community” <\/em><\/strong>(52 minutes – subtitled in 14 languages)<\/strong><\/p>\n