FOUNTAINS OF THE VERBUM DEI MISSIONARY FAMILY SPIRITUALITY

Each Charism and Church Community uses various spiritual sources of faith to shape its form of life.   The Verbum Dei Missionary Fraternity and Family always refer to four sources:  The Indwelling of the Holy Trinity in the person, the Eucharist, the Mystical Body of Christ and Mary’s “Yes”.

 

The Indwelling of the Holy Trinity in the person

Our intimate relationship with God, who is community, teaches us fraternal love and solidarity, communicating the Word to be proclaimed and makes our lives a home for others.  The presence of God in every person inspires us to search for the seeds of the Word of God in every culture and to look at the life of another person as a holy land where God also speaks.

 

The Eucharist

The Eucharist is for us the Summit of God’s Love, which invites us to action, penetrating our reality and forms the interiority of the disciple.   We not only adore this love in front of the Tabernacle, although we want to spend the best hours of the day in front of the Blessed Sacrament, but we try to offer our whole being so that this Love becomes tangible in us when we go out to the world and to people.

The Mystical Body of Christ

It is the daily composition of our prayer and mission.  Our world consists of concrete people, members of the body of Christ, often wounded and lifeless, sometimes asleep in the lethargy of consumerism and comfort, they forget about their role of giving life to others.  It is this Christ crucified today that attracts and occupies our time, our thoughts and our feelings. His words “I Thirst!”  invite us to listen to the pain, the pulse of life, the need, and they pull us to concrete action.

 

It would be impossible for us to persevere daily in the mission and the disciple’s journey if it were not for Mary who was the first…

Mother Mary supports us with her faithful maternal Yes. Her simple gaze, silent listening to the need (signs of the times) and courage, unprecedented action is an example and model for our everyday activities. We don’t have habits to tell the world about our consecration, we don’t have big churches to invite people to meet God in a holy place, but we have Mary who teaches us how to be totally devoted to God in the midst of worldly, human and everyday struggles.