Our Way of Being

Father Airton Freire

(Writings of the Earth, Vade Mecum)

Discipleship in a simple way of life being one of our main features, I personally encourage you to the following:

You must sanctify the holy name that is in you.

You need a time of silence, of prayer.

You need the sacrament of reconciliation.

At least weekly, you need to take part in a Eucharistic celebration.

You need to have a personal and sacramental life in agreement with your state of life, to recompose loss of unity.

Unity between heart and mind must exist in you, it shall give you stability in your way of acting.

Therefore, as a first step you should recompose your internal unity.

You are God’s belonging, and the areas in you that are stained by sin need to be transformed, as a condition for you to live the fullness of Truth that was consecrated for you.

“That they may be one as we are one” (John 17, 22).

The unity that must exist between us — as Earth Groups — is the third step to be observed.

I once again stress: strive to obtain and maintain Unity, both internal and external.

Whatever our work is, we must reveal the Merciful Face of God. We are servants of mercy, brothers of Holy Hope.

You are a builder of hope. The world needs testimony of the kind you can give. May the world see the reasons for your joy and your hope. Feed hope, flee illusion.

It is crucial that you shall, first of all be; in order to witness.

The world must perceive you as an integrated being.

May you reveal God’s Merciful Face.

In unity you shall be whole, undivided, and His Face shall be reflected in you and all around you.

Hence, may you be aware that whatever you do shall witness in favor or disfavor of your consecration to the Truth.

Any action opposed to the Truth shall entail great suffering, for you personally and for the whole body to which, sacramentally, you belong (see Colossians 3, 3-4).

Effective love is love enduring in concrete action.

People will believe in you as long as what you do reveals the love you profess for your Beloved One.

Be yourself the guardian of your soul’s innermost sacredness.

You may have to undergo some pruning as seasons go by, but the fruit shall be worth the pain there is in waiting.

You must be willing to seek.

This shall be your foremost mission, which is a mission of love: to live fully for Truth, for the One that consecrated Himself for you (“and for their sake I consecrate myself so that they too may be consecrated in truth”, said the Lord – John 17, 19).

Given on February 2009.