Despite the weather, the conference could proceed OCH! But many could not come then, to make you wait until CD DVD, here are some ideas I had in mind in preparing my remarks.
First, we'll celebrate Christmas and the birth of Jesus, God made man! Let us rejoice in the happiness of Mary was chosen to be the mother of Christ, for his "yes" has put us all on the path of salvation!
In 2011, 40 years after the founding of our movement, let us rejoice for having been called to follow Jesus in a Faith and Light community, share the happiness, the joy we've found. Yes that invites us to say Prayer of Faith and Light, a yes or spontaneous, enthusiastic, communicative, attractive, yes to accession, so that leads us to become messengers of joy that characterizes the lives of communities, the joy that is part of our identity !
So this joy, this happiness that we will testify, is that of having been chosen in our poverty, our folly, in our suffering, our misery for us to be friends, but also to become Friends of Jesus. These are small, the weak, the mad he has chosen to confound the great and strong and wise.
Blessed are you poor in spirit, for you that God has chosen for his own kingdom!
Do not say we're blessed because we are handicapped because we are the parents of a person with a mental disability, it would be a contradiction, I would never say to a person with a mental disability " you should be happy to be disabled, thank God! "Never! Disability should remain what it is: a scandal, a case of anger, distress, tears.
But it is in our suffering that Jesus expects us to cheer us up! If we know to be humble enough to acknowledge our wounds and do not hide them, repress them, then our cries for help are heard and it will be answered. Jesus does not answer perhaps not directly, but it will do through his angels, who sometimes take human form!
If the angel Gabriel visited Mary, because she certainly prayed a lot and called, and God came to look upon his lowly servant!
We all our lives in encounters with people who came to bring comfort and support, and when Gerard and Camille came back with many of Lourdes pain and suffering of not being accepted, how do you think will be found on their way Jean Vanier and Marie-Hélène Mathieu?
So yes, let's be happy to have been chosen to carry the message to the world the joy of Faith and Light!
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