Dear Brothers and sisters,
Once again resounds in our community the joyful proclamation of Easter and it recreates the grace of novelty: it breaks, it can disrupt, certainly renewed.
Best wishes for Easter this year will not grow in spiritual reflection and motivation for a particular subject, but I believe it useful to highlight how the celebration of the Paschal Mystery, every time, illuminates the concrete situation in which we live, gives a sense and insert a new impetus.
I am confident that you will find this account of intense affection and acceptance as a stimulus for a celebration of the Easter Triduum, so that might affect your personal and community life.
The Risen Lord enlighten and sustain our way in this time of trepidation and hope, in situations where fatigue are some of our community, in difficult and complex situations in which other communities living in conditions of communities that feel part of the suffering faced by the local Church in which they live, but also the community that is in a joyous occasion such as the Brazilian, who celebrates 80 years of Olivetan monastic presence in Sao Paulo.
addition, our congregation is preparing for the General Chapter, being particularly decisive for our future, it will be enough in height: the Chapter Fathers will feel forced to read in the current situation we are experiencing the newness to which the Spirit prompts us , not only to small changes in direction, but to struggle to find new ways to play meridian freshness and enthusiasm to the communities that maintain and enhance a creative fidelity to our charism of Benedictine Santa Maria di Monte Oliveto.
"Loyalty to Christ, faithful to the priesthood" for more about Pope Benedict XVI encouraged us to live this year penetrated the size of the gift of the ministerial priesthood, born in the grace and strength of the new and everlasting covenant, the gift of Easter of Christ.
"Look at my hands and my feet are really Me."
Only those who experience this sense the Christ, the living, to listen, to sit at table with him, felt his heart burn, you'll meet in faith and love the Risen One, animating your life from the ongoing relationship with him, deep affection for him
certainty so that we draw from the Passover of Jesus is this incessant coming of the Lord in the intertwining of human events, that often we do not understand. The glory of Easter
enlighten the dim horizons of our troubled history, while the night awake with the dawn of the pulse in the days to come our monastic family loved by God
crediamoci We really! It is not poetry, not a nice feeling, not a 'utopia' and 'risen, he is truly risen. True Lord is risen Alleluia! "
us strengthen our conviction that this man of God, when the evening you forward in our story of omens of the night, in the middle of this darkness that cry dawn breaks always more memorable than the Sunday of the Resurrection.
No longer, then the darkness closed and deaf, because Christ is for us every morning of Easter in our lives every morning is a wonderful wake up, open to youth's spiritual holiness, love and joy.
The hope is not in waiting things out of us turn for the better. Within us is to build a better relationship with what happens in our mind. God is in opening to the novelty, the God who makes all things new "Behold, I make a new thing: now it springs forth, do you not perceive it, I'll open a road in the wilderness, rivers in the desert "(Is 43.19).
Trust in the Lord is to believe in a future that we can not see, but we can trust God, who in our present deserts, where it is easy to get lost and lose courage, tells us a safe way to go and our drought parched that we can find no way out of us again freshness, vigor and clarity. Emmaus
return to every year, every day in our monastic way with its lights and shadows, because Christ is always present Easter, yesterday and today. A great Father of the Church teaches and exhorts us: "Believe that Christ is spiritually present, although physically absent. He is here with you, listen to what you say about him, see what you think of him, we explore the kidneys and heart, even at this moment is here to welcome you ... to introduce you, through the Holy Spirit to the Father. "(St. Cyril of Jerusalem Cat.14, 30).
Certainly we all know that Easter is the fruit of the Cross. Easter is already hidden in the Cross, Easter sprout from the wood of the Cross. As it is difficult to contemplate the cross, because it is difficult to look up to it, "fools and slow of heart ... not necessary that the Christ should suffer and so enter into his glory?" (Lk 24, 26).
He walks with us, He tells us the meaning of the Scriptures, He - when there is no trust - breaking the Bread of Life that makes us experience the power of the Resurrection.
not find better way to conclude this letter by calling greeting another reason that impels us to celebrate our joy and thanksgiving: the ministerial priesthood, fruit and gift of Christ's Passover. In this year
Priests, monks, sisters and you non-priests, with our Holy Father Benedict share his attitude "pro reverentia priests"; so grateful to God for the gift part in the celebration of the divine mysteries with great reverence, and to feel spiritually involved offering to the Father the sacrifice of the Eucharist. Monks priests
We welcome the invitation to the men lovingly by His Holiness Benedict XVI February 20, 2009: "The year is an additional opportunity for priesthood religious priests to step up the path of holiness, and for all consecrated men and women a stimulus to support and sustain their ministry with fervent prayer. "
Yes, the priestly consecration makes us even more monks" Magis humilitatis exempla det omnibus (60 RB, 5) "if Sciens multo magis disciplinae regulari subdendum .... sed magis magis hac proficiat in Deum "(RB 62, 3-4); monks able to transmit and share with the brothers wonder of the Eucharistic celebration, love and enthusiasm for a Liturgy celebrated at the very best, builders of communion in the community.
We express this hope: the joy radiated from him - "Jesus Christ the Lord" - and enlightened sense of the sufferings, hardships, difficulties, turning every reality in the threshold of hope. In the broken bread that makes us brothers and sisters, is never trivial dear brothers and sisters, in the hope of Easter, which makes life flourish of the Passover of the Lord Jesus and nourishes us in a never-ending love.
Happy and Holy Easter 2010
to you and the Oblates and the Oblate
your monastery, which I cordially bless!
your affectionate Father Abbot General
+ Michelangelo M. Tiribilli OSB Oliv
WARNING:
1. In the Second Sunday of Easter or Divine Mercy, April 11, 2010, after the Prayer of Solemn Vespers will sign the Decree of Convocation of the General Chapter in 2010, thus starting the procedures for the election of Discrete.
2. Accompany the submission of the decree with a prayer of invocation written in two versions: one to be added daily as intentions at Lauds, Vespers, or at Mass, or as a prayer to be recited as a community.
3. Follow the sending of 'Instrumentum Laboris and the two cards (grids), the 'one to compile the report specification, the' one for the administrative report. (Law n ° 203).
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