This week we look back, to contemplate what we have received in this retreat - God's love itself. And we consider our response . Our desire for this week is to be filled with a deep sense of the gifts we have received , and so filled with profound gratitude, we will be moved to love and serve God, in all things , in our everyday lives. Love is the gift of self for the other. Love that is reciprocal grows.
Lovers give of themselves to each other, with each deep gift leading to a deeper response.
This week we will recall all of the gifts of love we have received during this retreat. We will remember all the ways God has given us graces that were the gift of self. We want to grow in gratitude for the activity of God's love for us, especially in the gift of Jesus for us, and the ways in which we have been blessed to know, love and serve with Jesus. This week we want to open our hearts to the broadest sense of God's love that we can imagine. Using images like the rays of the sun's warm light or the overwhelming power of a constant waterfall, we will consider how God's life giving presence and love flow in and through all of creation, given to and for us.