Tuesday, August 26, 2014

A Loving Fraternity amidst unloving surrounding!!!!!!!!!!!!




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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