On September 4th, Alberto Toutin offers the Capitulants some background on the Report of the General Government.
A young person in our midst would have to sense that there is something beautiful to live when we give our lives to a project that surpasses us and for which God counts on us. Continue your mission, continue your reparative action in the world. A mission that involves tasks, often in pastoral and ecclesial places.
This requires a constant search and review by the community: What are we doing? Why are we doing it? For whom and with whom are we doing it? How does this mission transform us, our world and our Church? This applies to a brother who is in full pastoral responsibility or at the service of the community: How can we make the criteria, attitudes and options of the hearts of Jesus and Mary inspire our action? Wherever we are, we should ask above all about the Lord, Jesus, and about his mother.
And it is valid that a brother who is no longer in direct pastoral responsibility or is retired or sick, that he should feel that the Lord counts on him too in his Mission: that his way of living old age, his ability to accompany and listen to others, his discreet and daily prayer, his readings, the way he take care of his brothers or allows himself to be cared for, must all speak of a love that is alive.
09/05/2024