The first Sunday invited us to recognize that sin breaks, but God recreates; where death expands, grace overflows. On the second Sunday, vocation resounded strongly as gift and call, and the third Sunday invited us to be present to accompany life and sustain hope.
This fourth Sunday we are invited to be light, to walk as children of light does not mean not to have shadows, but to let ourselves be illuminated by Christ and reflect his light. Our works and apostolic presences are called to be spaces where people grow, feel welcomed and discover paths of life. The educational and evangelizing mission is called to be a space of life, truth and social transformation.
On this Sunday, the Word invites us to review whether our presences are helping to awaken, to uplift, to transform reality, to live more fully and justly.
Once you were darkness, but now you are light in the Lord.
Brethren: Once you were darkness, but now you are light in the Lord. Walk as children of light-all goodness, righteousness and truth are the fruit of light-seeking what is pleasing to the Lord, taking no part in the unfruitful works of darkness, but rather denouncing them. For it is even shameful to mention the things they do in secret. But the light, denouncing them, brings them to light, and all that is uncovered is light. Therefore he says: “Awake, thou that sleepest, arise from the dead, and Christ shall be thy light”. Eph 5:8-14
Apostolic presences that evangelize and transform.
We take care of our apostolic presences, ensuring that they are spaces of evangelization and agents of social transformation, so that in each of them “our own way of educating” is brought to life. Aware of the importance of education in building a more just and fraternal future, we continue to promote the Global Education Pact in them, thus responding to this initiative of the Church and to the needs of today with our educational mission. Det CGXIX n. 24
Question for discernment
To what extent are our apostolic presences today being spaces of light that evangelize, transform and generate new life, justice and hope, according to our own way of educating?
Ignatian prayer proposal
