A heart that knows no bounds.
Herewith are our thoughts on these words.
Marcellin is a man deeply rooted in his time and place.
With his feet firmly planted on the ground and both eyes
open, he sees what’s going on around him and the things
that need to be done. He doesn’t stand pat and put
up with things as they are. For Marcellin, cries of pain
in the world become calls to action and opportunities to
respond to the signs of the times. He takes up the challenge
of these signs and searches for meaningful solutions to
problems. In doing so, he finds himself being drawn closer
and closer to the future God has in store for him: from
being a shepherd of sheep to becoming a pastor for the Brothers;
from Rosey to La Valla and the missions in Oceania…
Marcellin’s initiatives make established beliefs and
conventional wisdom crumble. He’s truly a man of daring,
running across borders and broadening horizons.
Today we too are being called to break through barriers
– not only geographical borders, but those of obstinacy
and inertia, of ignorance, of greed and selfishness, of
racism… We’re being called to be fired-up witnesses
to the Good News and to live in solidarity, making whatever
changes are necessary in order to succeed. Doesn’t
all of this seem to demand from us a commitment to the process
of refounding? To embody Champagnat in today’s World,
doesn’t it mean to address the problems of our time
rather than shutting ourselves up in a self-imposed ghetto?
Doesn’t it demand of each of us the act of placing
ourselves at the disposition and service of people most
in need? Mary is clearly our model in all of this –
she who “ went in haste” through the hill country
to be with her cousin Elizabeth, helping and taking care
of her for as long as was necessary.
A heart that knows no bounds touches all these ideas, and
reminds us of the calls of the XIXth General Chapter.
The stuff of dreams? Utopian? Absolutely. We need a preferred
future in order to move ahead with all deliberate speed,
either that or face the death penalty.
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and Sectors, since the authors’ rights are the property
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that would help us to prepare for the Canonization.