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Friday 20 February 2015

LENT 3: BEING THE BELOVED by HENRI NOUWEN 20.2.15


Day 3 of our Lenten Journey
I'm sharing brief daily segments of Henri Nouwen's BELOVED.
Thoughtful reflection to inspire and inspirit
our contemplation of who we are as we begin this journey. . .

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  "Self-rejection is the greatest enemy of the spiritual life because it contradicts the sacred voice that calls us the "Beloved." Being the Beloved constitutes the core truth of our existence.” 


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LIFE OF THE BELOVED available in print
Initially written in response to a Jewish journalist's question
 
[which began their friendship], 
"How does one live a spiritual life in a secular world? "
Life of the Beloved has become Henri Nouwen’s greatest legacy to Christians around the world.  Epistolary writing, this personally sincere and powerful invitation to the spiritual life offered in Christ is an uplifting guide.
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160 pages paperback
Publisher:  Crossroad Publishing Company
Published:  October 1st 2002
[Originally published 1992]
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Audio version:  2 cds 2.5 hrs
Read by Henri Nouwen
Publisher:  Servant Books
Published: February 13. 2007

"How does one live a spiritual life in a secular world?" Henri Nouwen responds from the depths of his heart to this dilemna posed by his friend Fred Bratman. Newly available on CD for the first time, this audiobook is recorded by Nouwen himself. His own interpretive reading of the text lends a sense of immediacy to the production. 2 CDs/2.5 hours (approx.)
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Nouwen, born Henri Jozef Machiel [Nouen] in Nijkerk Netherlands January 24th 1932.

Nouwen authored 40 b0oks on spiritual life.  His books are widely read today by Protestants and Catholics alike. The Wounded HealerIn the Name of Jesus, The Life of the Beloved, and The Way of the Heart are just a few of the more widely recognized titles.

After nearly two decades of teaching at the Menninger Foundation Clinic in Topeka, Kansas, and at the University of Notre Dame, Yale University and Harvard University, in 1986 he accepted the position of pastor and went to share his life with mentally handicapped people at Daybreak, the L'Arche community, founded by Jean Vanier, near Toronto, Canada.

After a long period of declining energy, which he chronicled in his final book, 
Sabbatical Journey, he died in September 1996 from a sudden heart attack.
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Available in print and audiobook
Find Henri Nouwen online
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2 comments:

Lucy said...

I have shared that wonderful quote with friends too--it perfectly locates that blessed place where spiritual health and psychological health meet, if only we embrace living there! I never knew there was a video of it--great. Thanks for sharing your experience of time spent with Nouwen's words.

Lucy said...

Me again :) It's just amazing to hear Nouwen preach like this. One imagines his voice as one reads, a contemplative, interior voice. I loved hearing him speak out and testify in such an impassioned way! I shouldn't have been surprised but I was!

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