Our vocation

The intuition was received with the vision of three trees similar to three crosses corresponding to the three persons transfigured on the mount Thabor: Jesus, Moses, Elijiah, each one of them revealing one of the basic points of our spirituality.

Elijah the Prophet reveals the prophetic dimension of our life through a spirit of poverty, the renunciation to material goods and self-denying, searching the highiest glory of God. This poverty may lead us to the martyre of love for Christ.

Elijah and Poverty :

Elijah represents the poor, the poor in spirit, the man totally deprived of himself in order to be possessed by the Spirit of God, even if it is not correct on a theological level. Poverty according to the Gospel is nothing but spiritual wealth. The paradox is only superficial, because there dwells an obvious truth : the Holy Spirit, who is overwhelming life, is at the same time, a power of impoverishment.

Jesus the Son of God represents the full dimension of prayer, the centre of our vocation.

Jesus and the Prayer :

Jesus - Christ is standing in the center, in the glory of his Resurrection, both blinding with light and transparent to the love of the Father which is shining from him and flowing on the world. He represents the central vocation of the Community, prayer as an endless dialogue with the Holy Trinity, in the heart of the Holy Trinity. To pray is to enter alive in death, and at the same time, to receive even if unaware, the power of the Resurrection. The first question to be asked to a new member could be : “Are you ready to spend the rest of your life in front of the Blessed Sacrament, without feeling anything, after having made the offering of your life ?“ Staying alone with the lonely, because of his solitude. This is the kernel of the contemplative life to which we are permanently called, the rock without which any activity, any apostolate, any mission is bound to collapse, one day or the other.

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Moses represents the obedience: obedience to God’s commandments, to the hierarchy of the Church, and to our brothers and sisters...

Moses and Obedience:

Moses accomplished everything by sheer obedience, most often against his will. Let us remember the battle against the Amalekites, when because of his weakness, he could not stand his two arms raised, which was the condition to obtain from God, in obedience, the victory for the Hebrew people. The sight of the men sustaining his arms like an offering to God, as an anticipation of Symon from Cyrene is a living illustration of what God is expecting from his shepherds, and of what the shepherds are expecting of those who are to help them in their ministry.