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Westminster Interfaith Newsletter
Issue 66 – May 2010
From Brother Daniel's Diary (11)
17 July 87. This idea of 'seekers' which has been in my mind ... because I have encountered some ... more and more ... as I have grown in interfaith, reminds me of the 100th sheep that the shepherd went after leaving all the others behind ... Methinks that here again Jesus is the example. He preached to crowds ... multiplied loaves for them but took care of the individual, spent time explaining, painstakingly, digesting the Scriptures (e.g. the woman at the well), Emmaus, Zaccheus, Simon, Nicodemus etc., ... even Pontius Pilate.
The encounter, the meeting of one person... not so much as the preaching from a pulpit as the Good Samaritan's behaviour, the personal attention, the 'individual' touch ... in the apostolate. Stopping to listen, to console, to repair, to apply balm, to carry to the 'inn', to carry home to the Father.
27th July. Could there be a greater gift than the placidity, the calmness, the 'known', 'persuaded', 'undisturbed assurance' of the mind of the SEEKER, of the person of faith, who seeks but who has found, (for one must always seek, always discover, at least try to discover, one must search, explore further, that inner peace of the seeker, of the pilgrim, who travels towards the Unknown who he has a certitude he exists, is his goal, ... the answer to his quest ... "Tu ne me chercherais pas si tu ne m'avais déjà trouvé".* O Lord, thank you for this peace ... for this gift ... for the time and the quiet to think, to reflect about it, to thank God for it ...
* "You wouldn't look for me if you hadn't already found me."
Alfred Agius
