Human history is full of wounds, ruptures and suffering. However, the Word reminds us, this first Sunday of Lent, that, in human history, sin and brokenness do not have the last word and also assures us that God’s love is stronger than all that breaks life. His grace not only repairs, but creates something new. God’s grace is like that, it overflows and recreates.
Where sin breaks, God recreates; where death expands, grace overflows. This logic of repairing grace connects deeply with care, interdependence and the healing of broken bonds: with our brothers and sisters, with the most vulnerable and with the common home.
From this certainty is born the call to care, to heal broken ties and to weave networks of fraternity: with the most fragile people, with those who live in situations of exclusion, with our common home. Caring is a concrete way of making visible the grace that continues to act in the world.
As Daughters of Jesus, we feel called to live and promote a spirituality of care: of persons, of wounded peoples, of those who migrate, of the common home; witnessing that where life seems fragile, God is already at work.
“If sin increased, grace abounded more abundantly.”
Brethren, just as through one man sin entered the world, and death through sin, and so death spread to all men, because all sinned. For by the offence of one man the reign of death began, because of the offence of one man. How much more now, by one man, Jesus Christ, shall all live and reign who have received an outpouring of grace and the gift of justification. In short: if the offense of one brought condemnation to all, so also the righteousness of one will bring justification and life. If by the disobedience of one all became sinners, so by the obedience of one all will become righteous. Rm 5,12.17-19
Priority: Weave networks of care based on affiliation and commitment to creation and to our brothers and sisters.
From the awareness of our filiation, we feel called to actively participate in diverse networks of care. We recognize interdependence and the need to collaborate with others. We want to join those who work for the most disadvantaged and for all those who are forced to move from their places of origin: migrants, refugees, displaced persons. Their situation challenges us and urges us to seek concrete forms of solidarity and support. It is essential to discover the networks already existing in our immediate surroundings and to discern our real possibilities of participation.
In all of this, care for the common home and a spirituality of care emerge as an inescapable priority. We are inspired by the encyclicals “Laudato si” and “Fratelli tutti” to this end, and we are committed to a constant dynamic of personal, community and institutional conversion. Det, CGXIX n. 22
Question for discernment
In what ways are we called today to take better care of life and with what real steps can we engage in networks of solidarity and care?
Ignatian prayer proposal
