“WE HAVE BUT ONE life, and God is with us on this journey; let us choose to be the Life we wish to see in our Church and our world.”
Sr.Maria Hughes, ASC in her presentation to the XX General Assembly of our congregation held in July in Mysore, India. 55 ASCs from 13 countries from all the continents, engaged in seeking forms fitting for today to…promote life, to save it, to improve it, to confer dignity on it and open it to hope.
THE CALL OF BLOOD… ESPERANZA – hope. Over the past two months this has been our call and our challenge…to listen to the hopes that lead to dreams, to speak the words of hope that soothe the wounds, to be one with the hopes that impel to action.
IT SEEMS THAT LENT has a whole lot to do with journey and with witness, both of which are risky. In the words of our Guatemala mission statement, we call ourselves to “do something concrete in each of the projects that reflects our charism and calls forth hope and a deepening of the value of life.” John Indermark in his book Do Not Live Afraid says it well, even if he uses more words than we do: “Faith’s witness is never anonymous because it comes from particular individuals and groups who live within and speak to particular locales and situations. As a result, faith’s witness is never without risk; the goal is not safety but transformation. God beckons us to trust the word of “do not be afraid” and then bids us speak as witnesses to the holy in life.”
WE WALK AND WORK, we choose and hope–now. In this moment, in this place. While hope keeps its eyes on the future, hope also keeps feet planted firmly on the ground and hands thick in the mix of life lived now. Why? Because the journey begins here. – John Indermark