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The first disciples demonstrate their faith by the breaking of the bread. In all our communities, among the people of God, we celebrate the Eucharist daily, considering it as the high point of our communion. Indeed, no Christian community can develop without finding its roots and its centre in the celebration of the Eucharist. It is through it that all education of a communal spirit begins. “Because there is one loaf, we who are many are one body, for we all partake of the same loaf” (1 Cor. 10,17).
The prayer of the Church, table of the Word and sacrifice of praise, are intimately united with the celebration of the Eucharist. Through psalms, through canticles and various intercessions, the Church responds to the Word that God addressed to it by this Word itself. The chanting of the psalms is the prayer of the Church par excellence because it is the thread of the prayer of Christ during his earthly life. Sanctify the day and all human activity is one of the goals of the Liturgy of the Hours. In our abbeys, all members of the community are jointly responsible for the beauty and the depth of the daily liturgical celebrations.
While being called to communal prayer, we also pray to the Father in secret. In every prayer, the fundamental relation of man familiarly united to God through faith is expressed. During the time of prayer freely offered to the Lord, we experience His love by tasting the divine intimacy and we progress in the joy of hope which does not deceive. Thus prayer of the heart induces us to be silent as soon as we can so that we may speak as and when we should.
For all members of the community, listening to the divine Word, the sacramental liturgy, the Liturgy of the Hours and personal prayer, which are the contemplative elements of our life, constitute an eminent form of apostolate and are the very soul of all our apostolate.
[updated on the 20.12.05]
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