Time to (re) launch challenges and deep breathing
Last weekend we made our second National Assembly. We are in our beloved home of Coimbra and take advantage of this time to look and reflect on the present and especially the future.
With the grace of God, we come to end the review of our directory (which we hope will be approved shortly) and, according to the reality of our communities of life, we draw guidelines for the future based upon the challenges taken in the International CLM Assembly of December 2012 in Maia.
We wanted, as usual, live this Assembly with the presence of those who are in formation. So with them, we shared moments of prayer, food and leisure, living this time in the light of the Apostolic Exhortation “The joy of the Gospel.” So it was with this joy and with the help of Fr Silverio Malta (MCCJ) that being in Assembly we remained in communion with the candidates in formation and all the Comboni family.
In our prayers, the “Joy of the Gospel” was read and prayed in the light of joy, the suffering and hope of the CLM in mission and the peoples to whom we are sent.
In fact, the increasing violence in the Central African Republic and the political instability in Mozambique leaves us restless, in suffering and in communion with the CLM there present and these peoples victims of these situations, but also because of this cross that we find the strength for our walk in faith and hope towards the One who has conquered death and pain.
by Susana Vilas Boas
