Letter of Aurelio to the Fraternity of Malta, October 2014

Dear brothers,

still he accompanies the color and the light of Malta in the return on the work and the normality of every day on our universal Nazareth shared last week. This Nazareth that we learned from the Gospel and from the universal message of the brother Charles: he identifies us with the work for the Kingdom there where we are, with the age that we have, with the forces which we have, in the small and insignificant things and in the response to the calls that every day we receive of God and of the persons.

malta-oct-2014-1Thousand graces for having taken refuge and listened, for doing a site to me between you.Thank you specially to Joseph FSADNI for his great effort in the coordination of everything, for to make possible this retirement and this meeting of real brotherhood, for removing and to bring me above and below and for worrying for every brother.

malta-oct-2014-2Thanks to Charlò CAMILLERI, ocarm., for giving itself in the morning and evening of a simple way his experience of study of the spirituality of Charles de FOUCAULD and of Teresa de Lisieux, in this missionary spirit that identifies both with a universal message.

It is never late to begin; we are never going to lose the time if we allow that God should be our time: in the small thing, in the humble work, in the service to the people who needs malta-oct-2014-3from our support, our scout and our hand to help to write his lives, with happiness and hope. The time is a God’s gift that we administer. Have time to the others is a good investment. The experience of fraternity that you have is an endorsement of this well used time. It is a value that does not shine, that does not provide curriculum or social position and eclesial relevant. We think sometimes about a future that we do not even know how it is going to be; our present is what counts, so much for us as for God. Which is the future of our fraternity, if already we are old? In the God’s hands it is.

malta-oct-2014-4I received in my visit to the seminar an important sample of hope. Jimmy is a friend of the fraternity, is a good rector. His testimony between the seminarians and his work between them deserves all my attention. It is good to mature the idea arisen of organizing a Week of Nazareth with the seminarians who are interested for Charles de FOUCAULD charisma, which they want to know more closely the spirituality than us joins and the way from the Gospel like FOUCAULD’s families we try to live. Many seminarians come to the seminar marked by malta-oct-2014-5a pastoral and spiritual concrete line; It is a question not neither of break labels nor to create new others. It is a question of offering from our poverty that a diocesan priests needs from a spirituality that he identifies him with Jesus’ mission. And it forms a of life that him makes be a friend of companions and to open his heart in the review of life. A spirituality of the desert and a spirituality that does of the adoration a moment of grace and of friendship with Jesus. A spirituality that helps to the teamwork, to realizing jointly the pastoral tasks, which he compromises with the world and the life of the poorest, as poor, not as deserters of social class.

These and other challenges are those that we can perceive from what we are and do, from our personal history and from the calls in the heart of the fraternity.

malta-oct-2014-6Thanks to all for being like that.

A hug of your little brother

Aurelio, responsible brother

Perín, Cartagena, Murcia, Spain, 15 october 2014,

Teresa of Jesus, best friend of Jesus

(Sorry my Spanglish)

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