February 2010, Vol. XXX, No. 2
Holy Spirit Missionary Sisters Convent of the Holy Spirit – Techny, Illinois 60082-6026
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Let us allow God’s transforming love to lead us right smack into the center of who we are created and called to be. be.
n Lent, God’s invitation to us becomes very focused: “Come back to me with all your heart, don’t let sin keep us apart.” “Turn away from sin and live the Gospel.” To sin is to miss the mark, like when an archer’s arrow doesn’t hit the center. When we sin, we miss the mark, the purpose of our existence, of who we are created to be. Then how do we turn away from sin? By going back to the center, to the essentials of who we are: Beloved sons and daughters of a Trinitarian God whose streams of life and love continually flood every part of our universe creating new life, redeeming what is broken and connecting all in relationships of trinitarian mutuality. Sin is disconnecting ourselves from God, ourselves, others, life and reality. As a human race, we have certainly missed the point, sinned gravely and caused much suffering in our world. In the last century alone more than 100 million human persons were violently killed by the hands of their fellow human beings. How we need to come back to the source of Life and Love in Whose image all of us are created and not let fear and violence keep us apart. The Good News is this is possible; it is God’s invitation to us and God is always there for us, active and present with Redeeming Love. Our spirituality as Holy Spirit missionaries is Trinitarian. We allow the love of our Father/Mother, God, to embrace us and make us women disciples, the liberating love of the crucified and Risen Lord to transform our being and the Spirit-love poured into our hearts to pervade all our being and doing. Our missionary charism, then, urges us to make known to others this great stream of life and love (continued on Page 2)