“At the same time any new community I would like to see centred on
God, on the Word of God, on Christ’s presence in the Eucharist. We need
communities of mature men and women who live by faith, who are
‘experts in humanity,’ who are passionately in love with God, with each
other and with the whole of creation. People strong in faith because they
have known the struggle of integrating within themselves the different
tensions which each person carries within. People strong in faith who know
what compassion and mercy mean because they have encountered within
themselves the intrinsic poverty of the human condition, and hence do not
put heavy burdens on the shoulders of those they meet. People strong in
faith because they know that the call to change for the better, the call to
conversion, is addressed first of all to themselves rather than to others.
Then they will be able to effect change for the better around themselves
just by BEING, not relying on what they do, knowing that only HE can bring
about true and lasting change in a person’s heart. Men and Women who
love the Church and are ready to give their lives for the Truth she teaches,
despite all the weaknesses they experience in themselves or difficulties they
face externally. People who, in faith, are willing to take risks to proclaim
the Truth but with gentleness because they know that they, for first, often
fall short of the ideals reached for. It is God who is in control and, thank
heavens, he knows how to turn EVERYTHING into good for those who love
him and try to serve him.” (Sr Camilla COLW 13/10/99)
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