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“A father’s communication with his many children… that is one of the most agreeable occupations of my life” 1857
The “Saviour as the key that opens the door of our mission…” There is a beautiful Celtic hymn called The Deer’s Cry sung by Rita Connolly that I find myself wanting to sing this morning:
Christ with me, Christ before me
Christ behind me, Christ in me
Christ beneath me, Christ above me
Christ on my right, Christ on my left
Christ when I lie down, Christ when I sit down
Christ when I arise, Christ to shield me….
My own personal vow to God when I met Him – to love through Him – this would be the only way for me to love everybody. This was to be my key to life, my key to responding through him and with him and in him. Not just some pious sounding words but a lived reality. I did not know how it would work, only that it would be.
What is the key that opens the door of my life and mission? It is the love, the cross that is always before me: Jesus the Christ who died on the cross for each one of us, It is my vocation to be lived out with and among the poor. This is my passion which has become a part of my DNA, a response to St. Eugene’s invitation to become one of his daughters. At the very center is this beautiful cross with Jesus hanging on it: beautiful only because of the love that became a part of our reality with the cross and resurrection. It is a part of my creation and becomes a living part of my being which is of God, the Trinity – not as separate pieces but as three in one, that mingling of the Body and Blood of Jesus. It is in this way we stand at the foot of the cross looking up and through our crucified Saviour finding our freedom to love, serve and accompany the poor.