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Quote of the day
Not risk being poor only in name.
St. Eugene de Mazenod
Reflection of the day
November 16
A novice is happy to make vows, has been preparing himself at length for it, and pronounces them with generosity and joy; but he has not yet experienced the full import of the gift he is making, and he does not yet know all that being faithful to the commitments he is undertaking will cost him.
It is only with time, with the passing of years, that this gift will completely pervade his being, transform him and make him the religious he has chosen to be.
It is the same for the new Constitutions. A long period of time is beginning which, in a sense, is even more important than the Chapter. It has been called “the period of interiorization”, a space of time during which the Constitutions and Rules are progressively to become an integral part of our lives.
Fr Fernand Jetté OMI
Weekly anecdote
The Sower of “Aves”
Poland can count among its sons many illustrious men. To name but a few we remember the holy martyrs Josaphat Kuncewicz and Maximilian Kolbe. Also, the wonderful composer Chopin, the young Jesuit Stanislas Kostka, and not the least, Karol Wojtyla, Pope John XXIII. The Oblate Congregation, for its part, is proud to have given the Church a humble Polish religious, who, without attaining a similar notoriety, we hope will become famous one day, by receiving the honors of beatification. We are speaking of Brother Antoine Kowalczyk, whose edifying life was recounted in a captivating book by Father Paul-Émile Breton: Le forgeron de Dieu (God`s Blacksmith). (more…)
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