I remember reading somewhere: Carry good things, with you, spread happiness, deliver charisma, be affectionate, and always put a smile on your face! With this, I welcome you to yet another chapter of our Province. Every stage of life is a permanent grace, with its own enduring value. We also believe that life is a Blessing to be experienced and make others experience.

Our 14th General Chapter theme invites us to “Be the compassionate love of God and build a Human fraternity.” In our relationship with God, we always experience a gratuitousness’ that testifies to the depth of the Father’s love for us. Humankind has a mandate to change, to build, to master creation in the positive sense of creating from it and with it. We are therefore called to ascend the mountain of God to experience the Divine, then to descend and live up the experience in our day-to-day life be it community life, workplace or any other, through our very lives of grace. We need the stamina to strive daily without getting discouraged or lost. There could be a sort of danger in today’s world due to consumerism which could result in failing to hear the voice of God, to experience the quite joys of his love, and the desire to do good can also fade or diminish, posing a real danger, but the good news is that Christ is alive and he wants you to be alive! He is our hope, He is in you, He is with you and He never abandons you.