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Accompaniment
With the gift of listening comes the gift of healing, because listening to your brother until he has said the last word in his heart is healing and consoling. Someone has said that it is possible "to listen a person's soul into existence".

CATHERINE DE HUECK DOHERTY
POUSTINIA: CHRISTIAN SPIRITUALITY OF THE EAST
FOR WESTERN MAN, P. 161
A contemplative approach to youth ministry is focused on discipleship through the accompaniment of young people. Just as Jesus sought to form disciples through a relationship of love and an invitation to follow Him (Mt. 4:18ff), we also seek to initiate young persons into mature Christian faith through relationships with elders who join them in living the way of authentic discipleship. Young people are searching for spiritual guides who are alive in Christ to help reveal to them their deepest identity and beauty as beloved daughters and sons of God and to assist them in discerning their unique gifts and vocation in the service of God's reign. Companions of the Project seek to be compassionate elders in the faith who seek out regular accompaniment for themselves and who actively model the disciplines, virtues and fruits of the spiritual life. They offer youth friendship, guidance and listening hearts as they make the passage through adolescence into spiritual maturity, "to the measure of the full stature of Christ." (Ephesians 4:13)

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