Our training....

Do you feel uncomfortable when people give easy answers, tell half‑truths, do not take life seriously? This is God's blessing. Cherish the truth within your heart.

Do you feel angry when people are exploited or oppressed? Your anger is God's blessing. Work for their freedom in justice and peace.

Do you weep for those who are hurt and hungry, rejected by their neighbours, their lives destroyed by war? Your tears are God's blessing. Reach out your hand to comfort them, to turn their pain into joy.

Do you feel helpless in this world because the problems are too great? Your urge to be of help is God's blessing. Have faith that you can at least make some small difference in the place where you are.

Based upon an old Franciscan blessing

The pain of longing and striving for God's will to be done in the here and now prepares His children for their service in the coming age.