Where Does Love Lead Us?
Each issue of Update now includes “emerging questions” designed to engage us in reflection about religious life, leadership, and the signs of the times. One of the questions the Contemporary Religious Life Committee gave us in the October issue asked, “Where has love led me/us?” I found this question particularly intriguing. The call to religious life is a call to love, and the call to leadership is a call to love in a particular context. Where has our response to the call to love led us? And where is it leading us?
I found one answer to those questions in a reflection written by one our temporarily professed sisters from India. This young sister is participating in our congregation’s leadership development program. In her monthly reflection, she wrote about her parish priest. (Read entire reflection by downloading document below)