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“A father’s communication with his many children… that is one of the most agreeable occupations of my life” 1857
This morning we will begin the first of two local Community Days and so I dare to ask for all of your prayers.
In reflecting on how Justice, Peace and the Integrity of Creation lives within our call and desire to share our experience(s) of God we might find ourselves focusing on a particular stream of consciousness that we are inspired to enter into according to the many gifts that have been shared with each of us as members of the Oblate Charismatic Family: none of us can do anything on our own which is why we are called to be in communion with God, our Church and those who are not always accepted and truly welcomed in rather than just being tolerated.
Our Founder, Eugene de Mazenod was called to rebuild the Church in France, and what is one of the backdrops of our mission, particularly in the light of Justice, Peace and the Integrity of Creation. And while each of these is a part of the other, a particular flow within the greater flow of our way of life. Not unlike the oceans which have many flows within them individually, yet part of a world-wide planetary flow.
How then is it possible? None of this is impossible within the heart of our crucified Savior who is not bound by our physical bodies, structures and ways of being. In the fullness of the presence of God we find that all is a part of a greater whole without the outer boundaries that define and limit us.
In the new book “A Companion to the OMI Constitutions and Rules – Reflections by the Oblate Charismatic Family” we are invited to reflect on the many ways that God has called us to evangelize in the light of God, the Church and our living expressions of the Oblate Charism. Each article is highlighted with the sharings of consecrated Oblates and Lay Oblates who are called and sent to bring Good News to the poor, resulting in the poor being evangelized (and we also include ourselves within that last part of our lived motto.
These reflections have been shared so as to invite us to discover how we are all called and sent: a never-ending flow of expressing the OMI Rule of Life.