Today
many are wondering about the exact meaning and definition of Love as we distort
the real one. There is a real quest and hunger for genuine, authentic and
healing love which makes us to feel the presence of God here on earth. The
pages of our periodicals, our television and computer screens are full of that
quest for love. In our pastoral ministry we come across many who seek love and happiness
in experiences that are deeply unsatisfying. Many do feel abandon by the close
family members. There is a deep frustration and fear that life is not worth
living.
I
may be pessimistic but I got the genuine feeling that many of our friars
feeling that there is no love and happiness. Life in the monasteries has become
somewhat artificial and suddenly the loving environment has collapsed around
us. The loving support does not exist among us. Many of us are wounded and hurt
by the words, deeds and actions. So there is a strong urge and quest for love
that will heal and happiness that will bridge up the gap that is created among
us. Many who have locked themselves up in self-made prisons have to be helped
to come out with our fraternal love. We cannot keep them away from our circle
of fraternal love. We need to create a loving environment, which will destroy
the fabric of Individualism of some friars. W have been created by a loving God
to experience His love and we have forgotten this truth. We have been created
in His Loving Image and we are not HIS SELFIE!!!!!!!!!!!!!
The
Church and the Order is inviting us to evangelize people, how can we
participate if we don’t evangelize ourselves? We can do this first by building
a loving fraternity through the grace of God. As Capuchins our specific mission
is to love that world called by God to a radical transformation, to love it
even to the very gift of own life so that it may fulfill its vocation. Where we
are concerned, to love our Brothers, the world, is to offer what is most
precious to us and which we have received from the Church and the Order: God
himself! God – Love! How then can we witness to that Love with people who seem
to live without feeling the need to know Him? In short, how can we proclaim the
Good News today? John Paul II wrote at the beginning of the new millennium: “To
make the Church the home and the school of communion: that is the great
challenge facing us ... if we wish to be faithful to God's plan and respond to
the world's deepest yearnings.” A community where fraternal relations and
prayer are a priority is a community, which proclaims the Good News.
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