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The Call to Live with Open Hearts (A Homily on Heartspace’s 16th Anniversary)

The Call to Live with Open Hearts (A Homily on Heartspace’s 16th Anniversary)

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Heartspace was founded in 2008 on the solemnity of the Sacred Heart of Jesus, and each year marks its founding anniversary on this feast of its titular Patron. Last June 7, at the 16th anniversary commemoration of Heartspace, founder Rev. Fr. Pachomius Ma. San Juan OSB delivered the following homily: What do you and I do when we meet someone who is unloveable, hurts us through an unforgivable act, or really is deserving of our judgment and condemnation? I wonder…

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Fr. Pachomius homily
A Recollected Heart, and the Second Coming

A Recollected Heart, and the Second Coming

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Last December 12, 2021, our founder Rev. Fr. Pachomius Ma. San Juan OSB blessed Heartspace Manila with a full day of recollection for Advent. His first talk addressed distraction, not just as a challenge for meditators, but as an obstacle to living one’s fullest life. The antidote he proposed to distraction was a disposition of recollectedness, not merely as an Advent exercise but as our daily attitude of living. Christmas is, of course, our commemoration of the First Coming of…

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