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20 February 2008

Lozada's Prayer

Today I start the Change I Want to See
The prayer Rodolfo "Jun" Lozada adopted

Lord, let me be the change I want to see;
to do with strength and wisdom
all that needs to be done,
and become the hope that I can be.
Set me free from my fears and hesitations.
Grant me courage and humility.
Fill me with Spirit to face the challenge
and start the change I want to see.
(Today, I start the change I want to see.)
Even if I’m not the light, I can be the spark.
In faith, service and communion,
let us start the change we want to see,
the change that begins in me.

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“Good theology stimulates and inflames the intellect. Thomas Aquinas and Bernard Lonergan add that it also helps to move the will. The heart needs to have some intellectual vision. Good ideas play no small part in any healthy change. Thus, the Christian community is always in need of good academics. As history shows, every time the Church has compromised on its intellectual tradition, seeing it as unimportant, it has paid a heavy price. Good, sound, abstract, academic theology is perennially the great corrective within church life and spirituality.

More recently, we have been blessed with an abundance of good theology... We are not lacking for solid ideas. What we are lacking however, is fire, romance, aesthetics, as these pertain to our faith and ecclesial lives. What needs to be inflamed today inside religion is its romantic imagination. Solid ideas and solid programs alone are not enough. We need someone to re-inflame the romantic imagination of Christianity, a new Francis, a new Clare, a new Augustine, a new Thomas More, a new Ignatius, a new Therese of Lisieux.”

Ronald Rolheiser, "Secularity and the Gospel"