Quote of the Week. It is time for society and the Church to build themselves up anew and to renew themselves in the hope God the Father gave us in Christ Jesus. This Advent we have become aware that the only possible start for this hope has been given to us in the stable at Bethlehem.
Surrounded by all the challenges and uncertainties, the Church asks us to look once more at Bethlehem, and to meditate on the reality and mystery of Bethlehem … It wasn’t the scribes or the legal experts at Herod’s court who came to the Crib, although they knew the place and time of the Messiah’s arrival; instead it was the simple and humble of heart who saw the Child “wrapped in swaddling clothes and lying in a manger” in the company of a simple woman, Mary, and a silent father, Joseph. They rejoiced with HIM and went away to bear witness to what they had seen and heard.
She wants to educate us accordingly, so that we come there with this in mind and with the simple, committed, courageous and poor attitude of the simple shepherds and humble Wise Men who left their power behind them to become simple and open pilgrims who saw Mary close to her Child. It is the attitude of the prominent children and disciples of Fr Kentenich. She does so in the hope that is given to us with the Year of Missionary Faith and with the faith in the Covenant of 2014, the renewing grace of 2014.
Fr. José María, Proposal of Hope
The core of the jubilee celebration of 100 years covenant of love in 2014,
is the renewal of the covenant of love
as an internationally networked creative missionary force.
