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notes. Hi, I'm Father Jim Martin. I'm about to lead you through a traditional Jesuit prayer

to help you notice where God has been

in your day. But first, here's our weekly reflection.

This week, we're continuing our series on prayer. I'd like to look at faith sharing.

Essentially, faith sharing is the practice where you meet with a group of friends

to share where God has been active in your prayer or your daily life.

Usually, the group is about four to five people,

though it can be larger if it's, say, taking place in a parish setting,

or being done on a pilgrimage, or during a group retreat. Faith sharing is pretty simple. Each

person offers their experiences of God's activity in their lives, perhaps where they felt most

moved, or notice God's presence, and especially what's been going

on in their prayer. Usually, it's better that there not be too much in terms of response from

the other people in the group. Why not? Well, because often if someone is going through a hard time

or even a dry time in prayer, it's tempting for someone else to offer advice or say,

oh, don't worry about it, or, oh, I went through that too,

or, oh, let me tell you what to do,

rather than simply listening and being present

to what is going on in that person's spiritual life.

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