The inspiring title above is
taken from the book “The Greatest Secret
in the World” authored by OG
MANDINO. He says that a mulberry leaf touched by man becomes silk, a field
of clay touched by man becomes a castle, a Cyprus tree touched by man becomes a
shrine, a cut of sheep’s hair touched by man becomes raiment for a king. In the
history of each of us, this particular saying is true as we have seen
that growth in our lives over the years with the touch of the genius of
many a holy and spiritual men and women. We have multiplied by a hundred the hard work
of our parents,teachers and format ors who toiled day to form us as good human beings.
The wheat cannot
choose for itself whether it should be fed to swine, ground for bread or
planted to multiply. But we had a choice to grow and multiply. We wisely
decided to plant the seeds of progress and development with the support of persons of generous persons.
We have matured over the years in spite of some dark clouds and
disappointments, debilities and inabilities because we chose to plant our
energies, intellect, talents and gifts. Now as we look forward to our future lives let us start moving hands towards fulfilling our dreams by allowing
ourselves to sprout and blossom with showers of grace and warmth of the Holy
Spirit.
So, let us now set goals for the
day, the week, the month, the year and for our fraternal communion and life.
Let us all now allow the Capuchin Charism to crack the shell of narrowness,
selfishness and individualism so that we may sprout to our full potentialities
to achieve our objectives. Before we reach our goals we
might stumble and fall, but every stumbling and fall makes us strong. Let the
Capuchin Franciscan rule, Constitutions, rich traditions and our own statutes
warm us up to bring forth the desired goals and turn our dreams into reality.
Let us together begin to climb the mountain putting the best foot of our
abilities and talents forward. Let the Capuchin Charism guide all of us to
religious maturity to achieve our goals by setting aside all that divides us.
We, like grain of wheat must
multiply a hundredfold to produce a hundred stalks of grace and blessing in our
lives and in the vice province. Let us all believe that we are more than a
grain of wheat and can feed the society and world when we live seriously our
Capuchin Charism.
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