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There are threads from yesterday’s reflection that seem to run through today’s. tapestry of our life journeys. Eugene mentioned that they were trying to build huts to live and pray in rather than great Cathedrals. And today we catch another glimpse of St. Eugene who sees a larger picture when he looked through the eyes of our crucified Saviour.
And now we have a few who want to serve only the small picture of their lives, while Eugene and his Superiors saw a wider vision. I think of Isaiah 52:4 and how we are all called to enlarge the space of our tents (and so our hearts) to include more – even the ones who are the lepers of our communities. I am reminded of the necessity of community discernment and of the vow of Obedience that we are invited to live and serve with freedom, particularly the most abandoned, and the poorest of the poor.
This is one of the deepest and truest part of the Charism given to Eugene de Mazenod and shared with all of his sons and daughters.
“Providence has permitted us to expand, let us take care of each mission which God confides to us.”
Surely we are all lepers in one way or another! Love is love is love… I never envisaged God calling me to lovingly serve the Church, my local parish, as well and most deeply true 2SLGBTQ+ persons. I am joyfully proud that they all ask me to walk with them. I do this as a daughter (or as one Oblate was said, a step-daughter) of St. Eugene de Mazenod. To be a recipient of God’s people who are not universally accepted by the entire Church fills me with tears of gratitude. This is how God chooses us to be, as God created us to be…