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Good Evening! This Is Not Right We all are the Priestly People of God. Together, we are leaders in responding to the emotional and spiritual needs of Priests and Brothers. July 2013 - Vol. 29 No. 7 We celebrate with many religious communities the journey that our newest members take to final vows and ordination. Pope Francis addressed seminarians, novices and other young people on their vocation path as they took part in the Year of Faith pilgrimage “I Trust in You”. (Translation provided by Zenit) Good evening! This is not right. We must learn to close the door from inside! And if I’m not sure, I must think, must take time, and when I asked Archbishop Fisichella if you understood Italian and he I feel secure in Jesus, I understand, because no one is secure told me that you all have the translation. I am somewhat calmed. without Jesus! When I feel secure, I close the door. Have you I thank Archbishop Fisichella for his words and I also thank understood this? What is the culture of the provisional? him for his work: he has worked so much not only to do this When I came in, I saw what I had written. I would like to say a but for all that he has done and will do in the Year of Faith. word to you, and that word is joy. Wherever there are consecrated Thank you so much! However, Archbishop Fisichella said a persons, seminarians, women and men religious, young people, word, and I don’t know if it’s true, but I take it up: he said that there is joy, there is always joy. It’s the joy of freshness; it’s the joy all of you wished to give your life forever to Christ! Now of following Jesus; the joy that the Holy Spirit gives us, not the you applaud, celebrate, because it is the time of nuptials... world’s joy. There is joy. But where is joy born? However, when the honeymoon is over, what happens? I heard a seminarian, a good seminarian who said he wanted to serve Some will say: joy is born from the things one has, and so, Christ, but for ten years, and then he would think of starting the search for the latest model of the smartphone, the fastest another life... This is dangerous! However provisional, but scooter, the car that attracts attention... But I tell you, really, this is dangerous because one does not gamble one’s life once I feel badly when I see a priest or a nun with the latest model and for all. I marry as long as love lasts; I will be a nun but for car: but this can’t be! You are thinking this: but, Father, a “short time,” for “some time,” and then I’ll see; I will be a must we now go on bicycles? The bicycle is good! Monsignor seminarian to become a priest, but I don’t know how the story Alfred goes on bicycle, he goes with his bicycle. I think a car will end. This is not right with Jesus! is necessary, because so much work must be done here and there, but choose a more modest bicycle! And if you like a I will not reproach you, I reproach this culture of the lovely one, think of how many children die of hunger, think of provisional, which beats us all, because it doesn’t do us good: this alone! Joy is not born, does not come from the things one because a definitive choice today is very difficult. In my time has! Others say it comes from the most extreme experiences: it was easier, because the culture favored a definitive choice to feel the thrill of the strongest sensations; youth likes to live be it for matrimonial life, or the consecrated or priestly life. on the knife’s edge, it really likes this! Others think it comes However, in this age a definitive choice isn’t easy. We are from dressing more fashionably, from victims of this culture of the provisional. I would like you to entertainment in the most fashionable think about learning to close the door of our interior cell from places – but in saying this I’m not inside. Once a priest, a good priest, who didn’t feel he was a saying that nuns go to such places, good priest because he was humble, felt himself a sinner and I say it of young people in general. prayed much to Our Lady and said this to Our Lady – I will Others, yet, from success with girls say it in Spanish because it’s a lovely poem: “This afternoon, or boys, go perhaps from one to the Lady, the promise is sincere. Just in case, don’t forget to other. It’s this insecurity of love, leave the key outside”. But this is said thinking always of which isn’t secure; it’s a “test” of love.” love for the Virgin; it is said to Our Lady. However, when one And we could continue... You also are always leaves the key outside, because of what might happen... in contact with this reality which you can’t ignore. (continued) We know that all this can extinguish a desire, can create very wet covering has been emotions, but in the end it’s a joy that remains superficial, it thrown over his/her life, a doesn’t go deep down, it’s not a profound joy: it’s the inebriation heavy covering that pulls of a moment that does not render us truly happy. Joy is not the them down... something inebriation of a moment, it’s something else! is wrong! But please, let us True joy doesn’t come from things, from having, no! It’s born never have nuns, never have from the encounter, from the relation with others. It’s priests with the face of a born from feeling accepted, understood, loved and from “pepper in vinegar,” never! this acceptance, this understanding and this love, and not But with the joy that comes because it’s of interest for the moment, but because the other, from Jesus. the other is a person. Joy is born from the gratuitousness of an Think of this: when joy is encounter! And from hearing it said: “You are important to me,” lacking in a priest – I say not necessarily in words. This is beautiful... And it is this, in a priest, but a seminarian fact, that God makes us understand. In calling us God says to also -- when joy is lacking us: “You are important to me, I love you, and I count on you.” in a nun, when she is sad, Jesus says this to each one of us! you can think: “But it’s Joy is born from here, the joy of the moment in which Jesus a psychiatric problem.” No, it’s true that it could be, it could looked at me. To understand and to feel this is the secret of be, certainly. It happens that some little ones get sick. It can our joy. To feel loved by God, to feel that for Him we are not happen, but in general it isn’t a psychiatric problem. Is it a numbers, but persons; and to feel that it is He who calls us. To problem of dissatisfaction? Well, yes. But what’s at the bottom become priests, Religious is not primarily our choice. I don’t of that lack of joy? It’s a problem of celibacy. I shall explain. trust the seminarian or the novice who says: “I have chosen this You, seminarians, nuns, consecrated your love to Jesus, a great path.” I don’t like this. It’s not right! But it is the response to a love. Your heart is for Jesus, and this leads us to make the vow call and to a call of love. I hear something within me, which of chastity, the vow of celibacy. However, the vow of chastity makes me restless, and I answer yes. The Lord makes us feel and the vow of celibacy do not end at the moment of the vow; this love in prayer, but also through so many signs that we can they go on. It’s a journey that matures, which matures towards read in our life, so many persons that He puts on our path. And pastoral paternity, towards pastoral maternity, and when a the joy of the encounter with Him and of His call leads not to priest is not the father of his community, when a nun is not closing ourselves but to opening ourselves; it leads to service in the mother of all those with whom she works, they become the Church. sad. This is the problem. Given this, I say to you: the root of sadness in pastoral life lies, in fact, in the lack of paternity Saint Thomas said “bonus est diffusivum sui” – it’s not too and maternity that comes from living this consecration badly, difficult - Latin! – Good diffuses itself. And joy also diffuses which instead should lead us to fruitfulness. We can’t think of itself. Don’t be afraid to show the joy of having answered priests or nuns who aren’t fruitful: this isn’t Catholic! This isn’t the Lord’s call, of the choice to love and witness His Gospel Catholic! This is the beauty of consecration: it is joy, joy! in the service of the Church. And joy, real joy, is contagious; it infects... it makes us go forward.
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