THE ONE PORTRAIT OF JESUS: LIFE-GIVING The most striking feature of this ONE portrait of Jesus is his capacity

to share with us the fullness of life he enjoys. He does this by accepting our weakness and waywardness so that we do not become fixated by the 10% of ourselves that is defective. He thus frees us to face the 90% of ourselves that we need to have affirmed. By accepting our poverty Jesus enables us to appreciate all of our goodness already realised and he also gives us the energy to realise all of our goodness that is yet to be. Jesus puts before us a healthy blend of idealism and realism. This is an idealism based on the gift of God more than on our own achievement and a realism that faces the fact that we are imperfect beings living in an imperfect world. Jesus has an all-inclusive vision in which he sees everything in perspective. This allows him to live serenely with the good and the bad, with the ideal and less than the ideal, with the weeds that grow amid the wheat. This portrait presents us with a love that is life-giving. The people who reflect this kind of love for us are those who are full of life themselves and they want us to live life to the full. They do this by encouraging us to face two important realities, the fact that we are weak and wayward as well as the fact that we are gifted and graced. They urge us to face our potential as well as our poverty so that we do not get so caught up with what is defective that we are unable to appreciate what is good. There are three features of this first portrait that are particularly life-giving. (a)The first of these is experienced in those people who accept its as we are. (b)The second emerges in their appreciation of our goodness. These two life-giving features are balanced by a third. (c) This is their concern that we would become aware of and take responsibility for realising our potential to the fullest extent. The people who reflect this love which is life-giving for us are full of idealism in wanting us to live life ever more fully. Their idealism or concern for all that yet might be for us does not obscure their view of all the good that is already present in us. This idealism is balanced by a healthy realism so that they do not engage in excessive striving to eradicate our defects. The people who reflect the love we are considering in this portrait are people who have perspective. They do not get imprisoned in a corner of life but keep their eye on what is essential and on how all else is related to this. They retain a broad vision and do not get preoccupied with the rules and the ritual which this vision inspires. Because they have this broad vision they can live contentedly with what is defective as they see this as only a small part of a largely gifted and graced self. There is, therefore, a serenity about this portrait and about the people who make it real for us and relevant to our experience.

How the Features of This Portrait Are Related In Enneagram Terms

A) Holy Perfection is seen here as a gift of life to be owned rather than earned. It is an experience of life gradually being brought to full flower through the power of the acceptance, appreciation and concern of the significant people in our lives.

B) Acceptance, appreciation and concern bring our lives to full flower Acceptance involves being freed from our fixation with the 10% that is defective so that we live constructively and contentedly with the weeds amid the wheat. Appreciation concentrates on savouring the 90% of ourselves that has been brought to full flower rather than becoming preoccupied with what is defective or with what is yet to be achieved. Concern is experienced in the desire of those who love us that we would realise all our potential for living life more fully C) To be fully alive is to face our potential and our poverty Idealism is a passion for excellence which is opened up and made attractive by people's appreciation and concern. Realism is a living out our ideals while accepting human limitations and weakness. D) Seeing all in perspective leads to serenity Perspective sees the relative importance of everything. Serenity is the virtue that holds idealism and realism in balance and lives contentedly with the weeds amid the wheat.

THE TWO PORTRAIT OF JESUS: AFFECTION

This second portrait of Jesus is characterised by the love of affection. His affection is non-possessive in that he leaves us free to receive it or not, to respond to it or not. It is a humble affection in that he is willing to perform the humblest of tasks to meet our needs. Jesus' affection is sensitive to our gifts, our needs and our aspirations. The affection of Jesus has a female and a male form of expression. Its female expression is seen in the compassion and generosity of Jesus. Its male expression is seen in the way Jesus challenges us to accept the full extent and depth of his affection and to get our 'whole heart and soul and mind and strength' involved in receiving and returning it. In our lives we have a lot of experience of the love of affection which is a love shown primarily within a family and especially between parents and their children. Affection as the appreciation and concern we receive within a family is the most basic love. The three qualities of affection are: (a) one of the finest qualities of affection is that it leaves us free to be ourselves. There are no strings attached to its giving. Genuine affection has not got to be earned but is there for us whether we respond to it or not. (b) Affection is the humblest of loves. We see this in the way that parents provide the most menial services for their new-born child. (c) Parents and especially mothers are sensitive to the needs, feelings and aspirations of their children. Affection has the capacity to merge or identify with the object of its affection, with his or her joys and sorrows. There are female and male characteristics of affection. Among the female ones are compassion and a self-sacrificing generosity. The compassionate aspect of affection is seen especially in the deep concern that inclines mothers to meet the needs and share the pain of their children. There is also a self-sacrificing generosity which we associate with the affection of mothers and this goes to endless rounds to cater for their children's needs and to realise their dreams. There are also qualities associated with male affection. The first of these challenges us to extend the boundaries of our affection by constantly broadening the circle of those we receive it from and share it with. We are challenged to let go of the comfortable confines to which we tend to limit our affection. This male quality of affection also challenges its to get our whole person involved in receiving and returning affection, our whole heart and soul, mind and strength.

How The Features Of This Portrait Are Related In Enneagram Terms A) Holy Freedom leaves us free to be ourselves, to follow our dream, to attend to our own gifts, needs and feelings as well as to those of others.

B) This freedom leaves our humility and sensitivity room to grow

Humility is the virtue through which we live with the truth that we have great potential and strengths as well as being immersed in poverty and weaknesses. Love, which gives us our worth apart from what we do, is not earned. Sensitivity means that we are tuned in to the gifts of others and can identify with them in their needs and feelings. C) Two female features of affection are: Compassion which is a concern that tunes in to and seeks to help, in a warmhearted way, those in need or who face difficulty. Generosity responds to the needs of others in an altruistic way even when this demands self-sacrifice. It gives the right amount of help with no strings attached. D) TWO male features of affection are: ... challenge us to broaden our horizons, to live in the wider world of affection, to develop wings as well as roots and to stand back and be objective . ... challenge us to get our whole person involved in receiving and giving affection.

THE THREE PORTRAIT OF JESUS: PROVIDENT OF LOVE

This portrait is of the provident love of Jesus. It is a love that is revealed in the depth and the pervasiveness of his practical concern for us. The depth of Jesus' concern is revealed in his hope for us which is that we would realise all the potential that is in us. It is this hope which sustains our efforts to realise our dream in spite of our limitations. The object of this hope is what Jesus calls the truth or the revelation of who we are in his eyes. The pervasive quality of Jesus' concern means that it covers all our needs from the deepest to the most practical. Because Jesus sees the relative importance of all these needs he has great clarity of purpose. He sees clearly how his practical concern to set us free and heal us are all part of the truth or good news he reveals to us. The provident love depicted in this portrait is experienced in people whose concern for our welfare is profound, pervasive and practical. Their concern is profound in that they focus on our deepest need to realise our dream or all the potential that is in us. When this potential becomes clear and a real practical possibility, we experience hope. This hope gets us out on the road towards the realisation of our dream or all that we are capable of and sustains us on our journey there. The pervasive quality of the concern of those who love us in a providential way means that their hope for us covers all our needs from the most profound to the most practical and above all the need to face our poverty as well as our potential. Therefore, for our hope to be healthy we need first

of all to learn how to live constructively and contentedly with our poverty. This means that we must face our limitations in a realistic way and accept that we cannot realise our dream or reach the object of our hope on our own. For our hope to be healthy we must also face the truth about ourselves, the truth that is an articulation of all that our potential makes us capable of. We need to discover, define and own the dream which those who are most concerned for us want us to realise. If we are to realise our dream we need clarity of purpose. This involves keeping in touch with our dream, constantly clarifying it and working out the most effective ways of realising it. We easily lose a sense of direction if we allow the demands of our more superficial dreams to obscure or deflect us from our sense of purpose. Clarity of purpose in turn invites us to work out the practical implications of realising our dream and being true to ourselves. Our time, energy and resources are often tied to the preoccupations of our outer world. Therefore, we need freedom from these demands if we are to be in touch with our true selves. If, due to a lack of space in our lives, we have become estranged from our true selves and from others, we will have a need for healing. How the Features of This Portrait Are Related In Enneagram Terms A) Provident love is an experience of practical concern that seeks to clarify our dream and how we might realise it. The dream is an expression of our potential that hope defines. B) Holy Hope is experienced as a deep desire to realise our potential or our dream. It is a practical desire in that it gets us out on the road and keeps us moving towards our goal. Poverty helps us to face our limitations and our failures realistically, as well as our need to rely on the support of others to realise our dream. Clarifying the object of our hope and how we get to it. C) Truth is the virtue which helps us to clarify the dream which is the object of our hope. It helps us be true to ourselves not to wear a mask. Clarity of purpose helps us to keep our dream in focus and to be well-organised in our plans to realise it. D) Provident love is practical, it carries out its plans graciously Practical concern can translate our plans into action in a graceful, enthusiastic and effective way, by for example, Freeing us from enslavement to superficial concerns and compulsive behaviour. Healing wounds of separation from our true self and others.

THE FOUR PORTRAIT OF JESUS: PERSONAL LOVE

What characterises this FOUR portrait of Jesus is the personal quality of his love. We see this in his attention to individuals, choosing them to be with him and calling each of them by name. He discloses himself to each person in a wholly original way. He empathises with each one in the weakness and wonder of their humanity. He is sensitive to people and comfortable being with them, whether they are joyful or sad. He acknowledges the dignity of people and especially of those who are ignored or rejected by society. Jesus gives concrete expression to his respect for everyone in the courtesy which characterises all he says and does.

The people who give us a good impression of this portrait love us in a personal way. They communicate one to one with the unique person in each of us and respect the fact that we are different. Therefore, they highlight what is distinctive about us by choosing us out of the crowd to be with them as friends. They reveal themselves to us with ease and invite us to do the same so that they may call us by name. It is this capacity to be sensitive and responsive to the unique person in each of us that characterises all the features of this portrait. The people in whom we catch a glimpse of this portrait are sensitive. They are perceptive or tuned in to the deeper meaning of what we say and do, discerning our hidden thoughts and what motivates us. They easily identify or empathise with us as there is no depth or subtlety of feeling that they are not familiar with. They are also responsive to what we think and to how we feel. They bring out into the open feelings we hardly notice and thus they intensify or reinforce our positive ones and free us from the domination of negative ones. Though they feel deeply and can express this with passion there is a balance or evenness in their response to the ups and downs of life that is termed equanimity. There is a distinctive style too about the behaviour of the people who make this portrait real for us. They are sensitive and respectful in the way that they acknowledge us. There is a style not just about what they say but about all they do. This finds expression in their courtesy which is for them part of the supreme art, that of relating.

How the Features of This Portrait Are Related In Enneagram Terms

A) Holy Originality highlights what is unique in each person by choosing us, calling us by name and by communicating with us in a personal way. In building up our personal relationships by communicating, we are: B) Sensitive, i.e.: Perceptive or in touch with the depth dimension, essential dignity and uniqueness of other people as we are with our own. Empathetic or we have an intimate knowledge of others, born of our ability to feel for and with them. and C) Responsive i.e.: Emotionally honest in that we feel free to express the full range of our feelings concerning what is shadowy and what is sublime with Equanimity which is the virtue that meets our need for balance in expressing strong feeling arising out of life's peaks and valleys. We are as at home with the sublime as with the ordinary. and D) Relate creatively, in that we Acknowledge others in being sensitive and respectful towards them and by being, Courteous in that there is a style about the way we relate, about all we say and do.

THE FIVE PORTRAIT OF JESUS: WISDOM

This portrait depicts the intimate knowledge born of being wholly and deeply loved by his Father. By his Incarnation Jesus reveals this interior knowledge to us by getting our whole heart, soul, mind and strength involved in coming come to know him and his love for us. This personal experience of the wisdom which Jesus gives us is clarified and deepened by the more universal experience provided by the Word of God and the Eucharist. In giving himself to us in all these ways we see the generosity of Jesus sharing not only all he has but himself in self-revelation. By making himself known to us Jesus initiates a conversation in which he communicates his wisdom to us. He challenges us to make room in our lives to listen and to respond to his wisdom. He even entrusts his wisdom to us by sending us, as he was sent, to reveal it to others. This portrait focuses on the wisdom figures in our lives. Their wisdom can range from having an overall vision of life that gives it meaning and direction to that intimate knowledge which springs from their capacity to be loved and to love. This intimate knowledge in which their wisdom ultimately consists may spring from a love that is personal, pervasive, profound, passionate, permanent or joyful or from a combination of these. To avoid our experience of wisdom becoming too abstract, idealistic or spiritual we need to think of it in human terms, as coming to us through our senses, feelings and images as much as through our minds. 1n other words wisdom comes to us in the ordinary ways through which we know those people who love us and whom we love. This wisdom, which is primarily the fruit of our personal experience, is expanded, clarified and deepened if we draw on the more universal experience that is available to us in traditional wisdom. This wisdom is mediated to us through stories, poems and proverbs. The wisdom figures in our lives generously share the wisdom they have gleaned from their own experience and which they have reflected on in the light of traditional wisdom. They communicate their wisdom mainly through conversation in which they communicate in depth. They communicate assertively by drawing us out, listening attentively to what we say and responding honestly and positively to this. To maintain this conversation and the relationships it establishes they challenge us to make space for reflection and for sharing its fruits in conversation. Making this space involves freeing ourselves from being -preoccupied with other concerns. Finally, the wisdom figures in our lives are good at delegating. They do not want us to be permanently dependent on them for our wisdom but invite us to become aware of and to trust in our own wisdom. How the Features of This Portrait Are Related In Enneagram Terms A) Wisdom can take various forms, ranging from being knowledgeable to an intimate knowledge of being loved. The truly wise are more visionaries and contemplatives than thinkers. The depth, concreteness and extent of wisdom is found in: B) Holy Wisdom which is an intimate knowledge of being loved and of responding to that love, especially when it is expressed In human terms as when it is allowed to involve our whole person, senses, heart, soul and mind. The extent and depth of Holy Wisdom is seen in the light of Traditional wisdom which provides a rich context within which we can interpret our personal wisdom. C) Wisdom's inbuilt desire to communicate itself appears in its Generosity which manifests itself in our desire to devote our time, energy and resources to sharing our wisdom. To do this our ability to Communicate is central to a view of wisdom based on relationship, on receiving and giving love and on the listening and responding involved in this. The generosity of the truly wise person in us seeks to

D) Communicate assertively in a way that challenges ourselves and others to fulfill the conditions required to communicate our wisdom effectively. We readily Delegate others to make full use of their own wisdom, encouraging them to be independent of us and trusting them to use their' own wisdom as they think best.

THE SIX PORTRAIT OF JESUS: FAITHFUL LOVE

The most striking feature of this sixth portrait of Jesus is his faithful love which remains constant and steadfast in spite of our unfaithfulness to him. He devotes himself tirelessly to establishing and maintaining our relationship with him and is willing to sacrifice all, even life itself to do this. Jesus shows fearless courage in pursuing this goal and in fostering faith in his Father's providence which is the source of his courage. He is clear and decisive about what is involved in living his life in the light of this loving providence and so he seeks to establish and maintain warm relationships not only with his close friends but nth those whom his own people reject as sinners and outcasts. We experience the love that characterises this portrait in people who are faithful, constant and steadfast in their relationships with us. Their fidelity emerges especially when we are disloyal or neglect our relationships with them. Our infidelity and neglect only seem to highlight the extent and depth of their devotion to establishing and maintaining their relationship with us. The intensity of this devotion leads them to sacrifice themselves to preserve this relationship. The extent, depth and intensity of this devotion to others calls for courage if they are to be true to themselves and to those whom they have committed themselves to. The very obvious courage we notice in these people is inspired by their deep conviction that the world is in the hands of a loving providence. This providence has a plan for them, a dream which is implanted in their hearts. They have an inner clarity about how important this dream is and a decisiveness about the practical steps they need to take to realise it. A large part of the realisation of their dream has to do with the cultivation of relationships and there is a warmth about the way they conduct these. Once they have established these warm relationships with the people who are central to their lives they have a deep desire to include all, especially those who live on the margins of society, into the warmth of their way of relating. How the Features of This Portrait Are Related In Enneagram Terms A) Faithful love is constant, loyal, warm and devoted even when it meets with infidelity.

B) The extent, depth and intensity of this devotion calls for courage
Devotion to our relationships is where the extent and depth of our fidelity is seen. Self- sacrifice which involves devoting our time, energies and our resources to others, demonstrates the intensity of devotion. Courage is the virtue needed to maintain the extent, depth and intensity of devotion. This courage has its source in what we believe about the world around us. C) The courage to maintain our relationships needs faith

Holy Faith adopts a vision of the world as pervaded by a loving providence which is faithful to us despite our deviance. This vision challenges us to be, Clear and decisive about the implications of what we believe. D) Extending to all the warmth of the relationships which faith inspires. Warmth in the way we relate in our closest relationships. This warmth is often displayed through playful banter or teasing. All are included in this circle of warmth especially those who live on the margins of society. THE SEVENTH PORTRAIT OF JESUS: JOYFUL LOVE What characterises this seventh portrait of Jesus is the joy that pervades his life. Joy surrounds his birth and his entire life is a journey towards the supreme joy of his resurrection. The source of Jesus' joy is his intimate knowledge of the goodness of his father. Jesus has an intense desire to share his joy with us. He delights in helping us overcome our difficulties, in reconciling us to himself when we go astray and in restoring our joy when he finds us desolate. In all these circumstances Jesus' joy is a diet or a sober one that involves his whole person and all his experience. We catch a glimpse of this portrait in the love of those whose lives are characterised by joy or happiness. Theirs is a joy that is at the core of being human and it finds expression in humour, laughter and celebration. They have a deep desire to share their joy as they realise how central it is to human life. Since joy is seen as being so important by them, their deepest wish for others is that they would also be completely happy. The people who give us our deepest experience of this joy base their happiness on a holistic or all-inclusive vision. This allows them to live happily with their limitations and weaknesses as well as with the gifted and graced person they find in themselves. Adopting this holistic vision takes a disciplined effort to bring about the change of mind and heart required if they are to develop the conviction of being loved that their happiness rests on. However, those who embody this portrait for us are good at overcoming the threat to their happiness that their weaknesses and failures pose. They also have a facility in overcoming the depressing effects of life's hardships, being good at restoring their joy when they find themselves in poor spirits. Finally, their joy is a quiet or sober one as it is a balanced mixture of all the levels of joy which are available to them. How the Features of This Portrait Are Related In Enneagram Terms A) A joyful love inspires a vision of a world in which happiness is seen as central to being human. It is a joy to be shared since it is seen to be a priority for others as ourselves. It involves An abundance of joy, placing no restrictions on the joy we have an unlimited capacity for. B) An all-inclusive vision of this abundance A holistic vision sees everything in life as a source of joy. It integrates into this joy our limitations, hardships and times of darkness. C) Developing our potential for joy involves: Holy Work which is what is required if we are to build the convictions on which true joy is based, ... the conviction that our limitations and weakness can lead to joy,

... the conviction that times of hardship can generate a new level of joy. D) Sobriety is the virtue that establishes a healthy mixture of all the joy available to us from the different levels of our experience. THE EIGHTH PORTRAIT OF JESUS: PASSIONATE LOVE What characterises this eight portrait is the passionate love of Jesus for us. He calls us to be his beloved in whom he delights just as he is the beloved one in whom his Father delights. His passionate love makes Jesus willing to share all he has and is with us. His magnanimity is seen in his passion for the truth. this revelation of his love leads us to a new sense of justice by a6ich we re-evaluate everything in the light of his passionate love. Seeing ourselves in this awesome light gives us the energy clove others in the practical way Jesus loves us. The passionate love of Jesus, especially as it is expressed in his death, exercises an immense attractiveness for us and draws us to him and to each other in a most generative way. The people who give us a glimpse of this portrait are those who fall in love with us. They love us passionately so that we become the object of their attention, of their delight and of their ardent concern. Their love is characterised by its intensity, by the way it involves their whole person and focuses all their attention on those they love. The intensity of their love inspires them with a magnanimity of spirit. This finds expression in the way they think, feel and act, in their passion for the truth and for justice and in the energy they put into acting in a way that is consistent with what they consider to be true and just. Their passion for truth is manifest in their integrity and honesty. The truth they challenge us to accept is not just an intellectual one but a truth found in relationships in which, by their acceptance and affirmation, they put us in touch with our true selves. Their passion for justice can be seen in the way that those they love become the centre of their concern. They evaluate everything in the light of their love for those people. Their passionate love also urges them to act consistently with what they hold to be true and worthwhile. There is a generative side to those who make this portrait real for us. They enliven us in the way that they accept our limitations and affirm our goodness, challenging us to be true to ourselves in realising all our potential. The ultimate aim of those who love us passionately is to restore to their rightful place our relationships with God, with ourselves, with others and with all of creation. How the Features of This Portrait Are Related In Enneagram Terms A) Falling in love is experienced as an intense and pervasive desire to be with the beloved. At the heart of falling in love is a Passionate love which has the power to focus our full attention and to get our whole person intensely involved with those we love in this way. This passionate love is, Magnanimous in that it transforms the way we think, feel and evaluate what is worthwhile and it enables us to act in a way that is consistent with the truth as we see it. B) Magnanimity has a passion for truth, justice and authentic living:

Holy Truth is experienced as a passion for being authentic, for being true to the light and to our basic relationships; Justice evaluates everything in the light of the truth which reveals to us what is really worthwhile and what thus becomes the centre of our concern. This leads us to adopt A lifestyle that is consistent with what we believe to be true and just and is distinguished by its child-like simplicity, honesty and candour, by the virtue of 'holy innocence'. C) Truth, justice and authentic action are generative and transforming. This passionate pursuit of truth, justice and of a lifestyle consistent with these is immensely generative and it transforms our lives by re-establishing our relationships with ourselves, with significant people, with others and with all of creation.

THE NINETH PORTRAIT OF JESUS: FRIENDSHIP This portrait is of Jesus as our friend. The friendship he seeks is based on a gift he gives of himself in self-disclosure. He reveals himself as one who accepts our limitations and who wants us to see these in the context of all the good he finds in us. In making himself known as one who accepts and affirms us he initiates a friendship which he invites us to enter by believing in what he reveals. Jesus wishes to maintain the friendship we have entered by engaging us in an ongoing dialogue. On the quality of this dialogue will depend the closeness of the friendship Jesus wants to establish with each person. The people who give us a glimpse of this portrait are our friends. Their friendship with us is based on what they share and this can range from some hobby we have a common interest in to a gift of themselves they give us by revealing themselves to us. Underlying whatever they share about themselves with us is a sense of being chosen and trusted by them with the revelation of their unique self. In revealing themselves to us, friends trust that we will respect what they reveal and that we will accept their weakness and appreciate their strengths. They in turn accept our limitations and they do not let these get in the way of their sensitivity to and respect for the essential goodness they find in us. They affirm us by appreciating all that we have already achieved and they are concerned that we attain all the life and happiness that we are capable of. The people who make this portrait real for us seek to establish and maintain the friendship they initiate with us. They initiate this friendship by choosing to make themselves known to us and in their ongoing effort to come to know the self they wish to share. The response they ask of us is that we would receive the gift of themselves which they offer us and that we would accept and affirm the person they reveal to us just as they offer to do the same with the self we reveal to them. They seek to maintain the friendship they have established with us by regular communication. This requires that we listen and respond honestly to what we each reveal of ourselves in an ongoing way. By this mutual sharing we call each other into the intimate relationship of friendship. How the Features of This Portrait Are Related In Enneagram Terms A. Holy Love is symbolised by friendship in which we seek to live in harmony with our own weakness and essential goodness as well as with that of others. Friendship thus involves

Accepting our weaknesses and those of others. This means being tolerant, patient and willing to be reconciled with all those areas of our lives from which we have become estranged. Affirming our strengths and those of others. This requires that we acknowledge our essential goodness, appreciate all the good that is already ours and that we are concerned about all the good that yet may be. B. Essential activity is the virtue by which we accept and affirm each other in a practical and ongoing way and thus Initiate a friendship by choosing to take the risk of disclosing ourselves to each other in an objective and frank way. We then seek to Establish our friendship by accepting the weak self and by affirming the essentially good self we reveal to each other. Part of the 'essential activity' of doing this is that we work at the change of mind and heart involved in this mutual and ongoing acceptance and affirmation. We can Maintain our friendship by ongoing communication. In this we are receptive in how we listen and honest in how we respond in a non-threatening and non-judgmental way. The intimacy of our friendships is proportionate to the quality of our communication and to the depth at which we share.