Wednesday, January 31, 2018

Fraternal Lunch!!!!!! there was fraternal Love in the Air!!!!!

 All wanted to know what kind of meat it would be.....

 It is like excavating the food.....

 Everyone takes place.....under the shadow....
 Every country has something special to offer but has connection with its tradition and history



 Curious and anxious to see what is hidden in the pit
 Enjoying in good company
 There you go.....its yummy


Panchamanca - A traditional Peruvian Cuisine !!!!!

 Morning session was heavy we needed some light moments....there comes the Provincial announcing that we are gonna have special food
 Meat, potatoes and beans are all buried under the ground and cooked with heat from below.....
 Every one was waiting for the friends of friars to serve the Panchamanca


 Spain, Brazil and India......friends sharing something in common

 On the green lawn the food was spread on table and Hugo raises heart, mind and hand in thanking the lord.....Blessing the food....

 There were two pots dug and the meat was cooked with the steam......


The Lack of Vocational Perseverance...Why do young religious abandon Vocation? By Br. Sergio del Moro

 1 - The phenomenon of the abandonments
2 - Analysis attempt;
3 - How to proceed (Method See, Judge and Implement)
The Pope expressed himself thus: "You have chosen an important theme. We can say that, at this moment, loyalty is put to the test. The statistics you have examined prove it. We are facing a "hemorrhage" that weakens the consecrated life and the life of the Church itself. We are worried about abandonment in the consecrated life. It is true that some leave for an act of coherence, because they recognize, after a serious discernment, that they have never had a vocation. But others over time weaken in fidelity, and often only a few years after perpetual profession. What happened?"
 We live in a society, the Pope continued, where economic rules replace moral laws, dictate and impose their own systems of reference to the detriment of the values ​​of life. "A society in which the dictatorship of money and profit defends its vision of existence.In such a situation, we must first let ourselves be evangelized and committed to evangelization

 A) absence of spiritual life: personal prayer, community prayer and sacramental life. Often, the lack of spiritual life leads to a great crisis of faith, for many the deepest crisis of religious and consecrated life and of the life of the Church itself. This means that the votes lose their meaning - in general, before abandonment, there are many and continuous faults against them - and not even the consecrated life. Clear, therefore, that in these cases the abandonment is the "normal" and more logical exit.
b) Loss of sense of belonging to the community, to the institute and, in some cases, to the Church itself. There is a disaffection for the community and the Institute, with a series of consequences (of every two priests who leave, one goes to the diocesan clergy ...): problems of interpersonal relationships, misunderstandings, lack of dialogue and authentic communication , psychic inability to live the needs of fraternal life in community, inability to resolve conflicts. I was always impressed to see the religious who abandon the religious life with all the naturalness, without any drama. They leave happy. It is clear that they leave nothing, because their hearts were already elsewhere.
c) affective problems: a very wide problem: the falling in love that often ends in marriage, the violation of the vow of chastity with homosexual or heterosexual relationships, more or less frequent - both among men and women, much more than what is he thinks, says the secretary. These problems have clear repercussions on fraternal life, which influence relationships, continuous conflicts ...



Third Morning Prayer and Eucharist by Br. Benjamin Echavarria

The morning mass was officiated by Br. Benjamin, the provincial minister of Spain...he was assisted by a Catalonia provincial and a Brazilian Provincial. In his introduction he spoke about St Bosco and his important place in the church and in the world....a man for the youth....

 “It is enough for you to be young for me to love and be genuinely interested in your well-being Your happiness is all I desire”
 The saints are always a big models for us to follow and live life like them
 The Lord of the Eucharist leads us on the path of sanctity and holiness.....
 We need to offer Him our hearts and whole being.....are we ready...
 We are soldiers for Christ and yes...ready to walk...
 Young and old Capuchins contribute a lot build up brotherhood...
 We are called to be collaborators of Christ Jesus
 The Eucharist gives us the spiritual force to discover Jesus anew in our given situations...
 To proclaim the Lord at all times
 To receive Him.....always and eternally