Our mission puts us on constant call to respond to the most urgent needs of the Church through various forms of witness and ministry, but especially through proclaiming the Word of God…
Constitution 7
In proclaiming the Word, it is our tradition to be simple and direct and to speak a language adapted to and easily understood by our hearers.
Rule 7g
There is a small part of me that wonders if it is only when we share the magnificent Word of God that it becomes the Living Word of God within us. It is only in sharing the gifts we have been given that they become alive to others.
Yesterday I listened to a podcast with Fr. James Martin, SJ and Fr. Ron Rolheiser, OMI as they shared back and forth about how Lectio Divina and Centering prayer helps them to retain the order of who we are: I am speaking about how two priests spoke of the order in their lives is a smaller version of the same order that God brought to the chaos in the ongoing creation of the universe and beyond.
Today I share my response to that podcast as I reflect on my parents and what they were like in the midst of family violence, shadows and humanness. My father was very violent, at the same time he was brilliant he helped program some of the earliest computers in Canada, while at the same time using his carpentry and cabinet maker skills as he helped build the convent attached to the Catholic school I attended; the convent for the Mothers of Loretto who taught us, and then for St. Mother Teresa’s Missionaries of Charity. I knew none of this until my sister told me that dad carved our names into the walls of the convent’s tabernacle. Just sharing this with all who enter into the place fills me with gratitude and wondrous joy.
The tenth day of the Inter-Chapter was dedicated to the ongoing process of restructuring the Congregation. In “a spirit of prayer and discernment, the delegates reflected together on how to strengthen community life and renew the effectiveness of the mission.” https://www.omiworld.org/2025/08/28/echoes-of-the-interchapter-reflections-on-the-tenth-day/ )
Light in the middle of darkness, order in the heart of chaos.