{"id":26224,"date":"2011-02-05T14:37:55","date_gmt":"2011-02-05T18:37:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2011\/02\/real-change-in-history-not-adm\/"},"modified":"2011-02-05T14:37:55","modified_gmt":"2011-02-05T18:37:55","slug":"real-change-in-history-not-adm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2011\/02\/real-change-in-history-not-adm\/","title":{"rendered":"Real change in history not administrative but of the heart, Discalced Carmelite superior says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!--StartFragment--><span style=\"font-size:12.0pt;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;;\nmso-ansi-language:EN-US\">Personal and corporate renewal is always a timely topic. Recently, the Superior General of the Discalced<br \/>\nCarmelites, Father&nbsp;Saverio Cannistr&agrave;, speaking about the hope of renewing his<br \/>\norder answered a question in what he saw as essential to renewal. I think the renewal is not only for the Carmelites but for all us. Don&#8217;t you think?<\/span><\/p>\n<div><span style=\"font-size:12.0pt;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;;\nmso-ansi-language:EN-US\"><br \/><\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-size:12.0pt;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;;\nmso-ansi-language:EN-US\">In part&nbsp;Father Cannistr&agrave;&nbsp;said:<br \/>\n&#8220;it is rather like the way of prayer Saint Teresa [of Avila] talks about: a growth that<br \/>\nhappens day by day, passing through moments of consolation and desolation, but<br \/>\nwith the determination to forge ahead, without giving up. The <u>real changes<br \/>\nwhich have had an effect on history, are not mere administrative reorganizations<\/u>:<br \/>\nthey are changes of heart, as Scripture tells us. If we do not expose our heart<br \/>\nto the beneficial tempest of the Spirit, then generous and prophetic<br \/>\ninitiatives cannot be born from it. Formation, both initial and ongoing, would<br \/>\nprobably be the sole help that we could offer, as an institution, to tread this<br \/>\npath.&#8221;<\/span><!--EndFragment-->\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Personal and corporate renewal is always a timely topic. Recently, the Superior General of the Discalced Carmelites, Father&nbsp;Saverio Cannistr&agrave;, speaking about the hope of renewing his order answered a question in what he saw as essential to renewal. I think the renewal is not only for the Carmelites but for all us. Don&#8217;t you think? &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2011\/02\/real-change-in-history-not-adm\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Real change in history not administrative but of the heart, Discalced Carmelite superior says<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[2074,1792,1789],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26224"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26224"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26224\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26224"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26224"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26224"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}