“In order to be able to offer a fact of life to our fellows, there must mature in each of us a
“In order to be able to offer a fact of life to our fellows, there must mature in each of us a self-awareness of our original dependence, to the point that it allows us to be reborn in any darkness; and it is necessary to be so taken hold of by the event of Christ that His memory dominates our days, because never am I more myself than when You, Christ, happen to me and flood me with Your presence. In this way, we will be able to live life as vocation, where ‘everything, every relationship, every joy, as well as every difficulty, finds its ultimate reason in being an opportunity for a relationship with the Infinite, God’s voice that continually calls us and invites us to look up, to discover in adherence to Him the complete fulfillment of our humanity’ (Benedict XVI).” ~ Juliàn Carròn Letter to the Fraternity [Shepherd and his Sheep’ - Adolphe Valette (1876-1942)] • …In March 2005, Carrón was elected President of the Fraternity of Communion and Liberation by the Central Diaconia. More: https://english.clonline.org/fr-carron • Pierrre Adolphe Valette (1876–1942), painter and teacher, was born in St Étienne in eastern central France, where he attended L’École Régionale des Arts Industriels. After training at the Ecole Municipale de Beaux-Arts et des Arts Decoratifs in Bordeaux he came to England. More: https://engole.info/pierre-adolphe-valette/ -- source link
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