| “Christian
initiation is accomplished by three sacraments together: Baptism
which is the beginning of new life; Confirmation which is its strengthening;
and the Eucharist which nourishes the disciple with Christ's Body
and Blood for his transformation
in Christ.” [1]
“We
are baptized Catholics and we want to live out our Baptism” [2]
We believe in the Gospel of the
Kingdom and we want to live it to its fullness for the glory of
God:
“By this is my Father glorified,
that you bear much fruit and become my disciples.” [3]
“So be perfect, just
as your heavenly Father is perfect.” [4]
“Love one another. as
I have loved you, so you also should love one another.” [5]
“So that they may all be one,
as you, Father, are in me and I in you, that
they also may be in us that the world may believe that you sent
me.” [6]
“I in them and you in me, that
they may be brought to perfection as one, that the world may
know that you sent me, and that you loved them even as
you loved me.” [7]
We would like to create a family
environment, inspired by the Holy Spirit and the fraternal charity
that reigned among the First Community of Christians as well as
in the Home of Nazareth.
“This is how all will know that
you are my disciples, if you have love for one another.”[8]
“They devoted themselves to
the teaching of the apostles and to the communal life, to the
breaking of the bread and to the prayers. Awe came upon everyone,
and many wonders and signs were done through the apostles. All
who believed were together and had all things in common; they
would sell their property and possessions and divide them among
all according to each one's need.”[9]
“Prayer in the events
of each day and each moment is one of the secrets of the kingdom
revealed to "little children", to the servants
of Christ, to the poor of the Beatitudes. It is right and good
to pray so that the coming of the kingdom of justice and peace
may influence the march of history, but it is just as important
to bring the help of prayer into humble, everyday situations.”[10]
“Imitate Me when I was in
the house of Nazareth –my mind was occupied with nothing
but the glory of the Father and the salvation of souls; my mouth
uttered nothing but holy discourses. With my words I tried to
repair for the offenses against the Father, to dart through
hearts and draw them to my love – and primarily my Mother
and St. Joseph. In a word, everything called upon God, everything
was done for God, and everything referred to Him. Why could
you not do the same?”[11]
We ask God continuously
and ardently to replicate in us the “Fiat” of the Virgin
Mary. This Fiat was freely given to God throughout Mary’s
life from her Immaculate Conception, Incarnation of the Verb, Jesus’
Death on the cross, to Her Glorious Assumption. This very Fiat
must be reproduced in our lives, in every instant, in every circumstance
of our lives, until the life of Jesus is formed in us.
“By pronouncing
her "fiat" at the Annunciation and giving her consent
to the Incarnation, Mary was already collaborating with the
whole work her Son was to accomplish. She is mother wherever
he is Savior and head of the Mystical Body.” [12]
“The
Virgin Mary "cooperated through free faith and obedience
in human salvation" (LG 56). She uttered her yes "in
the name of all human nature" (St. Thomas Aquinas, STh
III, 30, 1). By her obedience she became the new Eve,
mother of the living.” [13]
“The
Word became flesh to make us "partakers of the
divine nature”: “For this is why the Word
became man, and the Son of God became the Son of man: so that
man, by entering into communion with the Word and thus receiving
divine son ship, might become a son of God." "For
the Son of God became man so that we might become God."
"The only-begotten Son of God, wanting to make us sharers
in his divinity, assumed our nature, so that he, made man, might
make men gods.” [14]
“Grant
us Almighty Lord, that we who have so satisfied our hunger and
our thirst through these Sacraments, may be transformed in Jesus
whom we have received. Through Jesus Christ Our Lord.” [15]
The fulfillment of the “Fiat”
is of primary importance to our lives. It is that “Fiat”
which makes possible the design that God has for each one of our
lives. The design that has forever been in the heart of God: that
man returns to the image and likeness in which God created him.
“Blessed
be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed
us in Christ with every spiritual blessing in the heavens, as
he chose us in him, before the foundation of the world, to be
holy and without blemish before him. In love he destined
us for adoption to himself through Jesus Christ, in accord with
the favor of his will, for the praise of the glory of his grace
that he granted us in the beloved.” [16]
“...In
it man recovers the first sanctity that he had received from
You and comes to taste even while on earth the gifts that have
been reserved for Heaven.” [17]
"The glory of God consists
in the realization of this manifestation and communication of
his goodness, for which the world was created. God made us "to
be his sons through Jesus Christ, according to the purpose of
his will, to the praise of his glorious grace", for "the
glory of God is man fully alive; moreover man's life is the
vision of God: if God's revelation through creation has already
obtained life for all the beings that dwell on earth, how much
more will the Word's manifestation of the Father obtain life
for those who see God." The ultimate purpose of creation
is that God "who is the creator of all things may at last
become "all in all", thus simultaneously assuring
his own glory and our beatitude. [18]
“...We
are willing to pronounce our Fiat to everything that God wants,
whatever it may be.” [19]
“It does
not matter, where ever you want me, My God, Here I am! The Adventure
of the Will of God!” [20]
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