{"id":1660,"date":"2014-10-14T11:00:51","date_gmt":"2014-10-14T09:00:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rjmgeneral.org\/?p=1660"},"modified":"2020-06-26T14:52:30","modified_gmt":"2020-06-26T12:52:30","slug":"called-together-in-community-for-mission","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rjmgeneral.org\/en\/called-together-in-community-for-mission\/","title":{"rendered":"Called together in Community for Mission"},"content":{"rendered":"

THE JOURNEY CONTINUES\u2026<\/strong><\/h2>\n

Experience of God, Charism, Reality\u2026<\/strong><\/h2>\n

9th<\/sup> October 2014, Rome<\/p>\n

CALLED TOGETHER IN COMMUNITY FOR MISSION<\/strong><\/h3>\n

As we continued to journey together Teresa de Jes\u00fas Plaza RJM presented the four core values of Formation to us: Experience of God and Charism, Growth of the Human Person, Reality of the World and Ignatian Spirituality, as a process of personal integration which leads to a commitment to Jesus and His mission in the world.<\/p>\n

On the evening of the 5th<\/sup> of October, the evening of the 196th<\/sup> Anniversary of our Foundation, we prayed in a special way with Claudine, entering into her feelings and her dark night, and becoming aware of God at work in the midst of poverty, fragility and weakness.\u00a0 The gift of the call and Claudine\u2019s response invite us to respond, as one body, to the needs of our time with creative fidelity and with our eyes fixed firmly on Jesus, the light of the world.\u00a0 Our Indian sisters, through the symbol of the light, drew us to a sense of simple gratitude for all of this.<\/p>\n

1st<\/sup> CORE VALUE: EXPERIENCE OF GOD AND CHARISM<\/strong><\/h3>\n

\"Rosemary<\/a>Are we aware of God\u2019s love for us?\u00a0 With this question our sister Rosemary Mangan RJM, invited us to remove our sandals and enter our own holy ground to discover the active goodness of God at work there.\u00a0 This is an experience that takes flesh in the realities of our world that invite us to give generously of ourselves and to acknowledge our own weakness, thus abandoning ourselves into God\u2019s loving arms.<\/p>\n

She introduced us to various tools available to us that draw us towards this experience of God: accompaniment built on honesty and transparency, guidelines for the Ignatian Examen, silence and monotony, apostolic experiences and reflection on them, reading, meditation, prayer and contemplating the Word of God.<\/p>\n

\"Claudina\"<\/a>The charism, as a gift of the Spirit, is brought to life in each of the Religious of Jesus and Mary and in those who, in one way or another, share our apostolic mission.\u00a0 We see the face of Claudine reflected in the different faces of the Congregation all across the globe.\u00a0 It is a charism that, from its very roots, calls us to live out forgiveness and God\u2019s love in the midst of the realities of the world so that we too, like Claudine, can say: “How good God is!”<\/p>\n

The discussion around a number of case studies enabled us to understand this even more and to continue sharing experiences and difficulties.<\/p>\n

\"Constituciones\"<\/a>While we worked on this core value we also got the opportunity to visit the Archive.\u00a0 There, Maria Luisa de Anda RJM, brought us back to the very origins of the Congregation as she showed us Books of Minutes, handwritten letters and old photographs.\u00a0 We were all touched to feel a part of Jesus and Mary and sensed too the importance of knowing our history by accessing these primary sources.<\/p>\n

GENERAL AUDIENCE WITH POPE FRANCIS<\/strong><\/p>\n

\"Audiencia<\/a>On Wednesday 8th<\/sup> October we were present at the General Audience with Pope Francis.\u00a0 We were lucky to get good seats and to be able to see him so close.\u00a0 His invitation on that day was profound and clear: \u201cDivisions among Christians, while they wound the Church, wound Christ; and divided, we cause a wound to Christ: the Church is indeed the body of which Christ is the Head. We know well how much Jesus had at heart that his disciples should remain united in his love…\u201d.\u00a0 <\/em>Such words remind us once again of the importance of being one apostolic body.<\/p>\n

REALITY OF OUR WORLD<\/strong><\/h3>\n

Another of the four core values presented in the Book of Formation is the Reality of the World.\u00a0 It aims to awaken in us the \u201c<\/em>desire and capacity to be in touch with the reality of today’s world; to see this reality clearly, attentively, and critically; to feel compassion for those who do not know Him, and for those who are suffering, and to respond with generosity, forgiving love, and commitment to foster justice in whichever social milieu one lives and carries out her mission.<\/em>\u201d<\/em>\u00a0 (RJM Book of Formation, 2013).<\/p>\n

\"collage<\/a>Each one of us find ourselves in a reality that challenges us and calls us to build the Kingdom.\u00a0 Therefore we began with a prayerful, contemplative look at our world with all its pain and joy, all its wonder and woundedness.\u00a0 Important questions emerged from our prayer as well as the great challenge of forming women capable of responding with creative fidelity to the miseries of our time.<\/p>\n

Our reflection was further enriched by two documents: Pope Francis\u2019 “Evangelii Gaudium”<\/em> (in particular articles 52-75) and the Global Apostolic Plan Commission\u2019s “An approach to a contemplation of today\u2019s world”.<\/em>\u00a0 We also took into consideration the guidelines given in the Book of Formation for this core value in each of the stages of formation.\u00a0 In our sharing together we voiced our uncertainties, our concerns, our desires and our searching, which are all fuelled by a longing to \u201ccarry out redemption\u201d with the Trinity.<\/p>\n

May we, like Claudine and her first companions, respond with faith and courage to the realities of our time.<\/p>\n

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