It's just 51 days to our departure for, 30 days to our confirmation rites, 25 days to our confirmation retreat! What else do we need to have a countdown for - our Advent Cantata and Carnival on Dec 3 (46 days away). Plus all the formation sessions we need to have before departure.
Are we prepared, mentally, physically, and spiritually? Have we integrated ourselves into the community of mission-minded teenagers who will live together for 10 days away from the comforts of our homes? Please make the extra effort. It will be for your own good, and the community's, too.
As we make our final preparations, let us call out to Jesus to remain with us along the many roads to Emmaus of our time. May he be our strength, our point of reference, our enduring hope.
To do this, let us remember the story of the disciples walking on the road to Emmaus after Jesus' death? (Luke 24:13-35). The disciples were despairing. They thought they had lost their best friend forever. They were down in the dumps. They were losing hope. Then Jesus appeared and walked with them, restored their hope.
What can we do to walk with our friends who are ill, injured, or simply down the dumps, so that we can help them to have hope again?
Also there will be times that we will feel spiritually empty; that we will feel that we have been abandoned, what with the slow progress of fund-raising and all. But the first Beatitude says "Blessed are the poor in spirit for theirs is the Kingdom of heaven". Jesus will be there for us to intervene!
Let us pray: "Jesus, thank you for not leaving us, for always being with us, and for walking by our side. Help us to be a friend like you, to walk with our friends in their time of despair, to bring them a sense of hope in your name."
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