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Immerse yourself in a luminous reflection in which Brother Roger invites us to rediscover the power and depth of a committed \u201cyes\u201d, an act of trust which, despite the trials, becomes a source of freedom, creativity and renewed love.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n <\/p>\n\n\n\n Oui <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Once again, a forty-five year old man tells me: \u201cWhen I got married, I was conditioned, I lacked perspective and lucidity: today, I’ve found the woman of my life. Of course, at the age of twenty-three, this man didn’t have all his foresight. But at what age will he have it?<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n It’s impossible to make a choice without giving up other options forever. If we don’t, we’re a bunch of naysayers: we’re willing to say yes, but in the moment, without continuity.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n The \u201cyes\u201d to marriage – like the \u201cyes\u201d to celibacy in the Gospel – puts us on a knife-edge. It involves the whole person, his body and all his inner resources: intelligence, sensitivity, affectivity and imagination.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n By refusing to look back, the person who says yes tells Christ over and over again, for the rest of his life: \u201cI trust you, I’ll take your word for it. If we wait for total lucidity before saying a yes that remains a yes, aren’t we exposing ourselves to having nothing but leftovers to offer?<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n Once pronounced, the yes is the pivot around which continuous creativity is built, it is a column around which man twirls in freedom, a source near which he dances.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n For this man, there will come times when fidelity will no longer be lived in the spontaneity of being: the yes weighs heavily, it is consented to without love. Then, for the time being, the law may impose itself as a teacher, until love comes to the fore once more.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n Brother Roger<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Lutte et contemplation, journal de Fr. Roger – <\/em>Taiz\u00e9, Presses de Taiz\u00e9\/Seuil <\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Immerse yourself in a luminous reflection in which Brother Roger invites us to rediscover the power and depth of a committed \u201cyes\u201d, an act of trust which, despite the tri […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":52681,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"country":[],"class_list":["post-52685","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-family-year"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n
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