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THE INA NG PAG-ASA PROVINCE
IS . . . .
a community of men differing in age, character and temperament, of
varying experiences and mentality, predominantly Filipino, individually
endowed with unique qualities and talents and singularly blest with
spiritual gifts; men who strive to respond in faith and freedom to
the personal call of the Father to a total and enduring commitment in
Christ by living and proclaiming God's act of Reconciliation of which
Mary at la Salette tearfully reminded them, consecrating themselves
through religious vows to be living signs of this reconciliation among
the people of God with whom they were chosen to live and to whom they
were sent to serve;
a community of men who accept the burden of being human in order to
learn to be compassionate, religious men who have a heightened sense of
sin as an alienating and destructive force and whose painful awareness
of alienation and brokenness, of weakness and limitation, of fears,
doubts and selfishness . . . of sin in themselves and in others . . .
teach them to rely on the power of God to forgive and to heal,
to restore |
and
to uplift and to proclaim God's power in their weakness;
a community of men who individually and collectively respond to the call
of Christ to unify by casting their lot together as brothers in the
congregation of the Missionaries of Our Lady of La Salette, to be "one
mind and one heart" to recognize and to accept each others' giftedness,
to discover and to share each others' blessings, to feel and to bear
each others' burden, to risk, to praise and to reprove, to hope and to
rejoice together in love: men who find their strength in their
solidarity in Christ who calls them to be a reconciled and reconciling
community within the congregation and among the people of God;
A COMMUNITY OF MEN WHO DARE TO HOPE FOR THE FULFILLMENT OF THE KINGDOM
OF PEACE, JUSTICE AND LOVE. |
