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“What for Mary was a personal longing, she was able to personify for the poor ones. Her personal happiness, or being blessed, was transformed into vindicating or asserting rights for a whole people. In spite of suffering and oppression, she claimed that justice will come, that injustice will be righted.” This speaks directly to what the logo for the upcoming 37th General Chapter depicts: “Pilgrims, Hope and Communion.” Dear Eugene, this was what you began, the dream that you had and made real. I look at the placement of the logo, perfectly situated along side of Mary our Mother. I want almost to insert myself into the midst of that picture, and say yes I walk with you.
And together we do “…announce the liberating presence of Jesus Christ and the new world born in his resurrection.” Together we join with Mary, singing her canticle and there is an added sweetness to the very air that we breathe.
I am reminded of our province mission statement: “Disciples of Jesus, with the heart of Mary Immaculate, sons and daughters of Eugene de Mazenod, we are called to be Oblate missionaries in this time and place.
As daring members of the prophetic Church, we stand with the voiceless, hearing and making heard their cry, which is a cry to God who brings down the powerful and lifts up the lowly.
In so doing, we risk finding ourselves among the marginalized of our community, our society and our church, taking our place among the poor and the powerless, walking with those who, like us, hold within themselves tremendous beauty, strength and gifts as well as weaknesses, brokenness and limitations, that together we may help one another experience the love of God, so we may be healed and give of ourselves in the service of the continuous unfolding of the reign of God within creation.”
Just as Mary prefigured, and that Eugene envisaged for all it is the being that gives life to the doing. As the small book before me announces “The Path is Made in the Walking…” and even this announces both Mary whose name we take and the words “Pilgrims, Hope and Communion.”