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RETURN TO THE SOURCES

RETURN TO THE SOURCES

This is a basic appeal addressed to all religious since the Second Vatican Council.

The theme chosen for our present chapter is:

Trusting in God, we dare to live more and more as Sisters of the Divine Saviour.

Our foundress, Mother Alphonse Maria, whose Beatification we are going to celebrate within few weeks, showed us the way to go:

Looking at Jesus, she deeply experienced the redeeming love and mercy of God and passed it to others. As many generations of sisters have done before us, we, too, are walking in her tracks.

Besides Fr. Bernhard Weber, there is also Fr. Jean-Luc Ragonneau SJ from Marseille with us for 1 ½ days. We are attending to the talks of both providing us a basis for the profound reflection (re-focusing on) upon our source.

According to the wish of our foundress, we are “day and night” to look at our Saviour, who - according to Pope Francis - is the incarnate mercy of God, and to become “like him”.

Footsteps too large for our feet?

Look at each other with appreciative eyes, recognize in each one the image of God, especially in the disadvantaged and the suffering … accept each fellow-sister and love her because God has placed a particular hope into her – as said in our Rule of life.

Mother Alphonse Maria experienced herself as weak – and precisely her limitations – her physical disposition often exposed to serious threats from diseases – make her open, to entrust herself completely to God and to make herself totally available to him.

Considering the situation of our congregation as it is today, its history, the experiences of the past years and in view of the future, this knowledge helps us.

We trust that we do not have to accomplish everything all by ourselves, that our congregation is „His Work“; we draw our hope „from the sources of the Saviour“.

Therefore we hope to be able to set the course – spiritual and in view of our mission for many people - for the future for us and for all sisters of our congregation.