Dear catechists of the Neocatechumenat,
I understand that another Neocatechumenale session begins. I had serious concerns concerning the perspectives presented in the sessions to which I had attended in the group of Christmas. One had asked me why I had stopped attending there. I chose not to continue for multiple reasons. It is important for me that you know why, especially as your message will touch other people again outside. I accept that you can be in disagreement what I write but I ask you, as you so often asked us - "Listen. Don't close your hearts. Be open to the work of the mind." I also ask that you didn't judge these paragraphs until you have them all read, as you often asked us to not to question or to make declarations (even when we felt angry or confused) until we had attended has all sessions.
The message that I heard and learned through the Neocatechumenal path is written under.
I realize that it cannot seem to be you what has been said, but it is indeed the message that my ears and my heart heard. I already led the life of doubt, and during numerous years I went to the step with concern in my jail. I have been blessed to become a part of the community and the faith has untie the anguish of the chains and opened my heart in order to make to feel me the Christ's love and to teach me the implications that such a liberty could bring has my life. It is why I am sad when I consider the desperate pain that this Neocatechumenal message could let to vulnerable people whose lives lack love. One gives them a static god, and the manual for life - black and white. God's love is libérte, while encouraging us to put our confidence in The Christ - don't force us to seize the Christ's ankles, has let go us, afraid, by fear to be taken away on the wind of the sin.
God created us and liked us. God have create us to be always okay with him. We are made has His/her/its picture. He/it lives us of it (even though we don't add the Christian) because he/it has us all made. Since God made us to us can make the good. The sin is not eminent.
In God's love He/it gave has each of us of the grants and talents. He/it wants that each of us grew and becomes what we can. To sniffle in our life while saying that "I don't have anything has offer" is arrogant for him. Each of us can make a heap of astonishing things. We can feel and to use, happy and thankful, these gifts of the sky.
So god has us gives the grants and talents, He also gave us the mind and our own life to live it as we want it. The liberty of action and mind has been given us. We can choose the good. We can choose the pain.
God likes us as unique individuals who grow and become. It is the thing has celebrate, because God made us this way. God wants that one feels well, that we have confidence in ourselves. We don't have need to worry us if we are or no indeed of truths Christian, or if we should have led of the muddier lives so that The Christ can have more things has save. We don't have need to let people abuse us whatever is the used shape. The Christ wants that we are entie and the abusive person can be whole. To allow the sick situation passively permits to continue has support the illness. God wants that we respected ourselves. After all, He/it made us.
Because we know God us want to make what God wants us. Therefore we want to make God's will - not because we know that we will be miserable unless we make it, or because we will be punished if we don't make it, but out of action of grace - to know God made us, to know us better than someone else, and knew that indeed that one desire.
When we wrong God don't say us that god's finger leaves abbatre on us has shortcoming the clouds. God's answer to our sin is the love. We have mistakes. Therefore we speak with God, and we are forgiven. And God forgets it. Stroke of cloth he/it closes the slate. Therefore we don't have need to harp on again and again our past sins. We are forgiven. We are free. We are in the presence of the God grace that us full and that wants to help us when we miss. We don't have need to live our life in the concern that waits for the neighbor sin that is going to bound on us. God doesn't forgive us reluctantly. God forgives us because he wants that we are whole in our interactions for us even and for the other.
I don't say that the sin and guilt should not be discussed. Of course we are guilty and of course we have need to know that we are guilty. What I say is that I question the implacable method that I feel you to use "us are informed of him, we know." We have need to hear more of forgiveness and less sin - not because we are perfected, but because we are guilty. We have need to hear the tenderness, the acceptance and the hope because we are unworthy. We have need to be again and recalled again of the love of God and his/her/its forgiveness for us and His/her/its desire for us to see to be us whole. Although we are guilty people, we can come back continually has God - we don't have need to keep the waiting to be reprimanded. When one centers itself on guilt, misery and the pointlessness, that is hard to feel the joy of God's grace. If one centers itself on the forgiveness and the confidence and that one hopes, one can see his/her/its shortcomingses without having need to be pushed mildly.
I don't believe that Satan closes my ears to God's message through the Neocatechumenat. I realize that Satan tempts us. If my misunderstandings are indeed the temptation I believe that it is because Satan tries through the Neocatechumenat to encourage me to not to have confidence in the Christ's love as I know it. I have been lent to put of side the loving insurance that I feel in return for anguishes and despair - and Satan likes this way.
You can think that I persecute you. I know that Jesus said "Blissful the one that is persecuted." But the persecution is not the automatic sign that one makes God's will. I believe indeed that the message that I heard through the Neocatechumenat is false, and I am sad for you and afraid for the other. If he/it pleases you listen to these concerns with open hearts. God speaks us through one the other. God helps me to see that you are serious and sincere and believes in the loving God who changed you thus whereas you want to share your joy. But sometimes it is not merely the message that passes. You got on the line and you worked very with difficulty. But guilt and the torment are what I heard in the path and God is not that. Life of changes, of love, not of shame. The forgiveness gives a new life, not the fear. The grace opens your ears, don't mislead guilt.
I know that you like our Lord. I hope that you can accept that I also like our Lord. I know that you like God's people and so make the. We can say similar things, but it is not what I heard.
Sincerely,
Karen Anderson
